NVIDIA, an American technology company, completed the acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage, for $6.9bn. "The emergence of AI and data science, as well as billions of simultaneous computer users, is fueling skyrocketing demand on the world’s datacenters. Addressing this demand will require holistic architectures that connect vast numbers of fast computing nodes over intelligent networking fabrics to form a giant datacenter-scale compute engine. We’re excited to unite NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform with Mellanox’s world-renowned accelerated networking platform under one roof to create next-generation datacenter-scale computing solutions. I am particularly thrilled to work closely with the visionary leaders of Mellanox and their amazing people to invent the computers of tomorrow," Jensen Huang, NVIDIA Founder and CEO.