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Marvell acquires Celestial AI for $3.25B in cash and stock, gaining Photonic Fabric for optical inte...
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The acquisition of Celestial AI by Marvell for $3.25B meaningfully updates the AI Infrastructure segment by introducing photonic interconnects to solve chip-to-memory bandwidth bottlenecks, a critical structural force for scaling compute clusters.
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Named counterparties: Celestial AI
Marvell acquires Celestial AI for $3.25B in cash and stock, gaining Photonic Fabric for optical interconnects in AI data centers. This solves bandwidth bottlenecks, enabling 100x faster chip-to-memory links for massive AI training clusters co-packaged with XPUs. Revenue hits $500M run rate by Q4 FY2028, doubling to $1B by FY2029, reshaping scalable AI infrastructure. #AI #Photonics #Marvell #DataCenters #Semiconductors
