Groq
Role in each timeline
- Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face
AI inference-chip company that licensed technology to Nvidia and lost key executives and staff to Nvidia in a roughly $20 billion licence-plus-hire deal; it remains nominally independent.
Groq across every timeline
Every dated entry that names Groq, from all 1 timeline, newest first.
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- Groq calls lawsuit over Nvidia transaction meritless Response
A Groq spokesperson called the lawsuit challenging the company's transaction with NVIDIA meritless. Groq said it would vigorously defend itself against the case.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face - Nvidia defends the Groq arrangement after the inquiry is reported Response
An Nvidia spokesperson answered the reporting by calling the Groq deal an example of the American system working as designed.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face
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- Groq: about $20 billion for a non-exclusive licence and the founding team, Nvidia's biggest deal by far Announcement
On Christmas Eve Nvidia agreed to pay roughly $20 billion in cash for a perpetual, non-exclusive licence to Groq's inference-chip patents and software and to hire founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra and other staff, while Groq and GroqCloud nominally continued as an independent company. Structured as a licence rather than a merger, the deal avoided a Hart-Scott-Rodino filing; analysts said it kept 'the fiction of competition alive'.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face - Justice Department opens inquiry into Nvidia's Groq arrangement Regulatory
The Justice Department opened an inquiry into Nvidia's Groq licence-plus-hire arrangement shortly after it was announced in December 2025, and has since sent Nvidia a formal request for information. Nvidia took a non-exclusive licence to Groq's technology and hired several of its executives rather than buying the company, a structure the department is examining.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face