A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a special computer chip whose main job is to draw pictures and video on your screen very quickly. You can think of it as a helper for the main processor (the CPU) that is very good at doing lots of tiny math steps at the same time, which is…
Groq is an AI‑chip company founded in 2016 by Jonathan Ross, the engineer who started Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) project as a 20% side project before it became core to Google’s AI stack. After leading early TPU development and working in the Google X “moonshot” group, Ross left to design a chip company around…
In December 2025, Nvidia committed about $20 billion to license Groq’s AI inference technology and hire its top executives. This is effectively the largest deal in Nvidia’s history. Instead of buying the whole company, Nvidia is acquiring Groq’s physical assets and intellectual property, while Groq keeps running its own independent cloud business. Nvidia structured the deal as…