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How Nvidia's $6.9bn Mellanox deal made it bigger than Cisco
Original: Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cis
Nvidia's $6.9bn acquisition of Israeli networking firm Mellanox in 2019 is being credited as a defining move in the company's rise. The deal gave Nvidia high-speed networking technology that now underpins its AI data centre business, helping it overtake Cisco and become the world's most valuable company. Commentators are revisiting the acquisition as an example of foresight in infrastructure strategy.
Why now: Nvidia's surge in valuation keeps attention on the past deals that powered its AI-era dominance
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- Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot https://www. theregister.com/networks/2026/… · techwire@gamefan.net · 2
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