Nvidia’s **$20 billion acquisition of AI chip startup Groq’s core assets and inference technology**, with about 90% of Groq staff joining Nvidia, is the latest high‑impact IT news, cementing Nvidia’s dominance in data‑center and AI infrastructure markets.[1]

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