IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA today, to help enterprises scale artificial intelligence operations, according to a press release statement. The $234 billion technology company, a prominent player in the IT Services industry, continues to strengthen its AI capabilities through strategic partnerships.
The partnership focuses on GPU-native data analytics, document processing, infrastructure deployments, and consulting services. The collaboration addresses challenges enterprises face in moving AI from experimental stages to production, including fragmented data, inadequate infrastructure, and compliance requirements.
IBM and NVIDIA are integrating IBM watsonx.data’s SQL engine Presto with NVIDIA cuDF to accelerate query execution on large datasets. The companies tested the technology on Nestlé’s Order-to-Cash data mart, which processes terabytes of data across 44 tables covering 186 countries. Nestlé reported query runtime decreased from 15 minutes to three minutes, achieving 83% cost savings and a 30X price-performance improvement.
"Working with IBM and NVIDIA, a targeted proof of concept has demonstrated the ability to refresh global operations data in a few minutes and at reduced cost," said Chris Wright, Chief Information and Digital Officer of Nestlé.
The partnership includes Docling from IBM and NVIDIA Nemotron open models for document extraction and standardization. NVIDIA selected IBM Storage Scale System 6000 to provide 10PB of high-performance storage for its GPU-native analytics engines.
IBM plans to offer NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs on IBM Cloud in early Q2 2026 for large-scale training and inferencing. The technology will be integrated across Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA and VPC servers.
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Nvidia is a value stock according to Jim Cramer, and while some might dismiss the views of the “Mad Money” host, the evidence is mounting.
Nvidia chips are still dominant in the artificial-intelligence sector but the prospect of the $4.42 trillion company being able to double in size again seems distant currently, even as its numbers improve. Investors hunting for the next hot growth play in AI are more interested in its supply chain, looking at areas such as memory chips or optical networking.
The latest hardware announcements at Nvidia’s GTC conference were universally agreed to be impressive but didn’t get the stock moving. Nvidia shares remain stuck in the same $180-$190 range they have largely been in since last summer.
Nvidia is a value stock according to Jim Cramer, and while some might dismiss the views of the “Mad Money” host, the evidence is mounting.
Nvidia chips are still dominant in the artificial-intelligence sector but the prospect of the $4.42 trillion company being able to double in size again seems distant currently, even as its numbers improve. Investors hunting for the next hot growth play in AI are more interested in its supply chain, looking at areas such as memory chips or optical networking.
The latest hardware announcements at Nvidia’s GTC conference were universally agreed to be impressive but didn’t get the stock moving. Nvidia shares remain stuck in the same $180-$190 range they have largely been in since last summer.
Value stocks typically trade at lower-than-average price-to-earnings ratios. Nvidia isn’t quite there yet—it trades at a forward PE ratio of just over 21 times according to FactSet, just slightly ahead of the 20.9 times average for the S&P 500 as a whole.
But by other standards, Nvidia is acting more like a value stock than a growth play. Notably it is giving cash back to its shareholders. The company plans to return 50% of free cash flow to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. For 2026, Nvidia is expected to generate $171.76 billion in free cash flow, so it should be handing back more than $85 billion.
That makes Nvidia look more like Apple, which returns nearly all of its free cash flow to shareholdersvia share buybacks, than many of its large-cap technology peers which are seeing their own cash flows compress, due to the need for heavy spending on AI infrastructure.
It’s a comparison that might not excite shareholders as Apple faces questions about its record of innovation in recent years. But Apple’s consistent returns have led to a premium valuation, with the iPhone maker trading at a forward PE ratio of more than 28 times currently.
If Nvidia can emulate that shareholders will be rewarded, even though it’s not quite the explosive gains of yesteryear.