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Nvidia takes $1 billion stake in Nokia, sending the 5G equipment
maker's shares up 22%

Published Tue, Oct 28 202511:39 AM EDTUpdated 3 Hours Ago
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Key Points

  * Nokia announced on Tuesday that Nvidia will purchase $1 billion
    in new Nokia shares.
  * The Finnish company's shares soared 22% higher following the
    news.
  * Nokia is best known for its early cellphones, but in recent years
    has primarily been a supplier of 5G cellular equipment to telecom
    providers.

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Nokia announced on Tuesday that Nvidia is taking a $1 billion stake
in the networking company, the latest partnership for the artificial
intelligence chipmaker.

Shares of Nokia soared 22% higher following the news.

Nokia will issue more than 166 million new shares and will use the
proceeds to fund its plans for AI and other general corporate
purposes.

The two companies also struck a strategic partnership to work
together to develop next-generation 6G cellular technology. Nokia
said that it would adapt its 5G and 6G software to run on Nvidia's
chips, and will collaborate on networking technology for AI.

Nokia said Nvidia would consider incorporating its technology into
its future AI infrastructure plans.

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Nokia, a Finnish company, is best known for its early cellphones, but
in recent years, it has primarily been a supplier of 5G cellular
equipment to telecom providers.

The announcement comes as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang prepares to address
an audience of policymakers and government leaders in Washington,
D.C., to keynote the company's developer conference.

Nokia and Nvidia are expected to discuss some of their collaborations
and plans at the conference.

Nvidia has taken several equity stakes in strategic partners in
recent months as the company has found itself at the center of the AI
world.

In September, it committed a $5 billion investment to one-time rival 
Intel, and said it would invest $100 billion in OpenAI. It also
committed $500 million in self-driving car startup Wayve and a $667
million investment in U.K. cloud provider Nscale.

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