Nvidia announced Thursday it would invest $5 billion in Intel and collaborate on custom chips for data centers and personal computers, sending Intel's battered stock soaring 23% in early trading. The investment, which would buy Nvidia roughly 215 million Intel shares at $23.28 each, comes just weeks after the Trump administration took a 10% stake in the struggling chipmaker. As per the agreement, Intel will develop custom x86 CPUs optimized for Nvidia's AI platforms, potentially solving longstanding bottlenecks in CPU-GPU communication. For personal computers, Intel will build system-on-chip designs incorporating Nvidia's RTX graphics technology. "This historic collaboration tightly couples NVIDIA’s...