Marvell has data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://investor.marvell.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1000/marvell-to-acquire-celestial-ai-accelerating-scale-up-connectivity-for-next-generation-data-centers” data-url=”https://investor.marvell.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1000/marvell-to-acquire-celestial-ai-accelerating-scale-up-connectivity-for-next-generation-data-centers” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>confirmed plans to acquire Celestial AI in a deal worth up to $5.5 billion, a figure that immediately places it among the most aggressive acquisitions any mid-tier silicon vendor has made in the current AI cycle, and marks a decisive shift in how the company intends to compete against Nvidia, AMD, and Intel in the rest of the decade.
Celestial AI spent much of the last four years building a photonic interconnect platform intended to deliver high-bandwidth communication among accelerators…
