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Marvell Expands Strategic Collaboration with AWS to Enable Accelerated Infrastructure for AI in the Cloud
Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced today the expansion of their strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) through a five-year, multi-generational agreement that includes collaboration across multiple AWS products and the use of AWS cloud infrastructure, underscoring their shared commitment to driving innovation and excellence in accelerated infrastructure.
This agreement covers a broad range of data center semiconductors from Marvell, including the supply of custom AI products, optical digital signal processors (DSPs), active electrical cable (AEC) DSPs, PCIe retimers, data center interconnect (DCI) optical modules and Ethernet switching silicon solutions. Marvell’s pioneering role in essential silicon technologies enhances AWS to continue to advance their data center compute, networking and storage offerings, allowing AWS and their customers to achieve greater efficiency, lower total cost of ownership, and faster time to market.
Dual Use IP: Shortening Government Development Cycles from Two Years to Six Months
In mid-2021, a government entity approached Marvell because one of its designs was not meeting the environmental specifications. They had worked with another design house for two years to develop the IP to enable this chip to run at -55 C. Unfortunately, once the design was implemented in silicon, it did not meet the specifications for the application.
Rather than taking two more years to develop a completely new IP block, we instead turned to our existing IP portfolio. We identified a piece of IP that was being used in another design that could be altered to meet specs. We believed we could remove the nonconforming design from the government’s primary chip and replace it with our IP. While our existing silicon technology had not been designed to withstand the government’s temperature requirements, we immediately began working with one of our design teams to enable the IP to work in the extended temperature range.