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• January 29, 2026

  

  

  

  Video Series: SixFive Media Interview

  By Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional, Marvell

  

  Recently, Marvell joined SixFive Media to discuss the vision Marvell has for compute and connectivity. Below are some of the key clips from their conversation, uncovering the continued transformation of innovation in enabling AI applications.

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• November 20, 2025

  

  

  

  Video Series: The Future of Optical Technology

  By Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional, Marvell

  

  Optical connectivity is the backbone of AI servers and an expanding opportunity where Marvell shines, given its comprehensive optical connectivity portfolio.

  Marvell showcased its notable developments at ECOC, the European Conference on Optical Communication, alongside various companies contributing to the hardware needed for this AI era.

  Learn more about these impactful optical innovations that are enabling AI infrastructure, plus the trends and goings-on of the market.

   

   

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• September 22, 2025

  

  

  

  Marvell Wins Leading EDGE Award for Ara 1.6T Optical DSP

  By Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional, Marvell

  

  
  Marvell is the Leading EDGE 2025 winner for its Ara product, a 3nm 1.6 Tbps PAM4 optical DSP platform, which enables the industry’s lowest power 1.6T optical modules. The engineering community voted to recognize the product as a leader in design innovation this year.

  The EDGE awards celebrate outstanding innovations in product design for the engineering industry that have contributed to the advancement of technology. This award is presented by the Engineering Design & Automation Group, a subset of brands at Endeavor Business Media.

  Ara is the industry’s first 3nm 1.6T PAM4 optical DSP platform. Marvell introduced it to meet growing interconnect bandwidth demands for AI and next-gen cloud data center scale-out networks.

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• July 02, 2025

  

  

  

  Inside Marvell’s Expanding Custom Silicon Opportunity

  By Michael Kanellos, Head of Influencer Relations, Marvell

  The opportunity for custom silicon isn’t just getting larger – it’s becoming more diverse.

  At the Custom AI Investor Event, Marvell executives outlined how the push to advance accelerated infrastructure is driving surging demand for custom silicon – reshaping the customer base, product categories and underlying technologies. (Here is a link to the recording and presentation slides.)

  Data infrastructure spending is now slated to surpass $1 trillion by 2028¹ with the Marvell total addressable market (TAM) for data center semiconductors rising to $94 billion by then, 26% larger than the year before. Of that total, $55.4 billion revolves around custom devices for accelerated compute¹. In fact, the forecast for every major product segment has risen in the past year, underscoring the growing momentum behind custom silicon.

  

  The deeper you go into the numbers, the more compelling the story becomes. The custom market is evolving into two distinct elements: the XPU segment, focused on optimized CPUs and accelerators, and the XPU attach segment that includes PCIe retimers, co-processors, CPO components, CXL controllers and other devices that serve to increase the utilization and performance of the entire system. Meanwhile, the TAM for custom XPUs is expected to reach $40.8 billion by 2028, growing at a 47% CAGR¹.

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• June 06, 2025

  

  

  

  Welcome to the “OFC Film Festival”

  By Kirt Zimmer, Head of Social Media Marketing, Marvell

  The OFC 2025 event in San Francisco was so vast that it would be easy to miss a few stellar demos from your favorite optical networking companies. That’s why we took the time to create videos featuring the latest Marvell technology.

  Put them all together and you have a wonderful film festival for technophiles. Enjoy!

  PCIe + AEC and Optical : A new Era for Connectivity

  Annie Liao — Product Management Director, Connectivity Marketing at Marvell — showcased how PCIe Gen6 signals can be converted to optical—extending trace length beyond traditional electrical limitations. The result? A 10-meter cable reach spanning across multiple racks. Whether connecting GPUs, accelerators, or storage across racks, this kind of extended PCIe connectivity is critical for building the infrastructure that powers advanced AI workloads.

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