MediaTek's NVLink Fusion partnership: pioneering AI innovation with custom ASICs

    MediaTek's NVLink Fusion partnership: pioneering AI innovation with custom ASICs

    This week at Computex 2025, our Vice Chairman and CEO, Rick Tsai, shared details about MediaTek’s partnership with NVIDIA to bring leading-edge AI solutions to the forefront of technology. As one of the first adopters of NVIDIA NVLink Fusion, MediaTek is leveraging its expertise in ASIC design and high-speed interconnects to create custom AI silicon that addresses the evolving needs of cloud-scale AI workloads. This is another example of MediaTek's teams of world-class talent continuing to develop technology advancements that will enhance and enrich life for everyone.

    What is NVIDIA NVLink Fusion?
    NVLink Fusion is a pathbreaking silicon technology developed by NVIDIA that empowers hyperscalers to create custom compute solutions within the NVIDIA NVLink ecosystem, recognized as the most advanced and widely adopted scale-up interconnect globally. This technology facilitates industry-leading AI performance scaling for custom AI accelerators or CPUs, enabling hyperscalers to leverage innovations such as NVIDIA NVLink, NVIDIA GPUs or NVIDIA Grace CPUs, co-packaged optics (CPO) switches, rack-scale architecture, and Mission Control. NVLink Fusion allows for heterogeneous silicon offerings while standardizing around a common rack design, ensuring high-performance AI factories can rapidly scale to meet the demands of intensive workloads, including model training and agentic AI inference. Supported by a robust architecture roadmap and a rich ecosystem of partners, NVLink Fusion provides hyperscalers with a comprehensive solution to deploy custom silicon efficiently, achieving the fastest time to market for AI factories.

    Why MediaTek?
    MediaTek plays a pivotal role in the NVLink Fusion initiative, bringing its unparalleled expertise in ASIC design and high-speed interconnects to the forefront of AI innovation. As a leading semiconductor company, MediaTek's collaboration with NVIDIA is instrumental in developing custom AI silicon solutions that cater to the unique demands of hyperscale data centers. By integrating MediaTek's advanced technology leadership with cutting-edge NVIDIA NVLink Fusion, the landscape of AI infrastructure will be redefined. We are a highly differentiated partner for companies looking to deploy NVLink Fusion based on the following pillars:

    1. Unmatched Technology Leadership
      Our collaboration with NVIDIA marks a significant milestone in AI innovation. MediaTek's world-class ASIC design services and deep expertise in high-speed interconnects enable the development of custom AI compute solutions seamlessly integrated with NVIDIA accelerated computing. We support demanding workloads such as model training and agentic AI inference, ensuring scalable, efficient, and flexible AI infrastructure.
    2. Strong IP Portfolio
      MediaTek's involvement in the NVLink Fusion ecosystem brings a robust IP portfolio, including SerDes, optical, high-speed I/O, die-to-die interconnect, and memory technologies. These advancements are crucial for building next-generation AI infrastructure that can scale to meet the demands of hyperscale data centers.
    3. Collaborative Ecosystem
      MediaTek has collaborated with NVIDIA on various projects, from automotive to IoT, and now large-scale data center AI. Notably, we co-developed the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip for NVIDIA DGX™ Spark personal AI supercomputer for developers and researchers. Beyond NVIDIA, our ability to deploy on the latest process nodes with TSMC and deep relationships with industry players like Cadence, Synopsys, leading HBM suppliers, and many others make us an ideal partner to develop best-in-class custom ASIC solutions for AI Cloud deployments.
    4. Strategic Engagement Model
      MediaTek offers highly custom engagement models tailored to the unique needs of each customer. Data center customers can approach MediaTek through our Sales team to explore various business and technical models that guarantee multi-generational solutions. Customers can start designing with MediaTek today and plan for tape-outs in early 2026.

    Accelerating the Future of AI Infrastructure

    MediaTek accelerates the development of scalable and efficient AI infrastructure, enabling cloud providers to meet the rapidly evolving demands of AI workloads. By combining MediaTek's silicon expertise with advanced NVIDIA AI fabric, we are poised to deliver innovative solutions for hyperscale data centers and next-generation AI applications, reducing investments needed and time-to-market risk.