輝達斥資200億美元收購Groq，史上最大併購案震撼AI晶片市場
晶片巨頭輝達（NVIDIA）同意以200億美元現金收購AI晶片新創公司Groq，創下公司史上最大收購紀錄。此舉旨在吸收由Google TPU開發者創立的潛在競爭者，鞏固其在AI市場的領導地位。
AI晶片市場版圖，迎來驚天巨變。晶片巨頭輝達（NVIDIA）已同意以200億美元現金收購AI晶片新創公司Groq。此舉不僅是輝達有史以來最大規模的收購案，更被視為其在白熱化的AI競賽中，鞏固其龍頭地位的關鍵一步。
200億美元現金，輝達史上最大手筆
根據Groq最新一輪融資的領投公司Disruptive執行長艾力克斯·戴維斯（Alex Davis）透露，這筆交易是輝達以200億美元現金進行，且過程相當迅速。此金額遠遠超過輝達在2019年以近70億美元收購以色列晶片設計公司Mellanox的紀錄。就在三個月前的9月，Groq才剛以約69億美元的估值，從貝萊德（Blackrock）、三星（Samsung）等投資者手中募得7.5億美元。戴維斯表示，此次收購包含Groq的所有資產，但不包括其剛起步的雲端業務Groq Cloud。
Google TPU之父創立的挑戰者
Groq於2016年由一群前Google工程師創立，其執行長強納森·羅斯（Jonathan Ross）正是Google「張量處理單元」（TPU）的創造者之一。TPU是Google為AI運算設計的專用晶片，一直被視為輝達GPU的有力挑戰者。Groq專注於為大型語言模型的「推論」環節提供高速運算晶片，在市場上已嶄露頭角，並設定今年營收5億美元的目標。
鞏固霸權，輝達的投資大棋局
憑藉AI熱潮帶來的豐厚利潤，輝達的投資佈局日益積極。截至10月底，該公司持有的現金及短期投資高達606億美元。近年來，輝達已大舉投資AI生態系，包括AI模型開發公司Cohere、AI雲端供應商CoreWeave等。收購Groq這一舉動，顯示輝達意圖將極具潛力的競爭技術納入麾下，以防患未然，並進一步擴大其在AI晶片領域無可撼動的領先優勢。
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