Nvidia Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek as Chip Giant Opens AI Infrastructure to Custom Silicon
tekedia.com · Tue Sep-01 17:48:29 published · Tue Sep-01 18:00:54 alerted · alerted 12m after publish · read at www.tekedia.com ↗ · partnership · mat 85
Nvidia announced a $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek to integrate custom AI processors with its NVLink Fusion technology, aiming to solidify its role as the central infrastructure layer despite competitors developing proprietary chips.
verdict FRESH, direction bullish -> long NVDA (partnership: Nvidia announced a $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek to integrate custom AI processors with its NVLink Fusion technology, aiming to solidify its role as the central infrastructure layer despite competitors developing proprietary chips.)
overnight drift: long NVDA at close, exit next close (partnership: Nvidia announced a $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek to integrate custom AI processors with its NVLink Fusion technology, aiming to solidify its role as the central infrastructure layer despite competitors developing proprietary chips.) [skipped at close: outranked — mat 85 long lost to mat 90 long (decision 14904) for S4 NVDA exiting 2026-09-02]
Signal was the failure. The bullish call never worked: the stock's best unrealized while open was still -0.17% (never above entry), so the predicted upside simply didn't materialize. Timing wasn't the issue — price was only down 0.43% from prior close at decision time with a flat last 30 minutes, so there's no sign the move had already run before entry. The exit was mediocre but secondary: realized P&L of -1.03% sits between the best (-0.17%) and worst (-1.38%) available, meaning most of the drawdown was absorbed, but with the trade never positive there was little to capture regardless.
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