Marvell Technologies has entered into a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), solidifying their collaboration in the semiconductor and cloud computing sectors. Details regarding the financial value of the deal have not been disclosed.
Marvell will provide AWS with a suite of data center semiconductors. These include 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 to bolster AWS’s infrastructure.
In return, Marvell will leverage AWS’s cloud infrastructure for electronic design automation (EDA) to bolster its silicon design workloads, capitalizing on the scalability of AWS’s computing capabilities. This will also allow Marvell to parallelize additional design tasks, optimizing their development processes.
“Strengthening our partnership with AWS marks a significant milestone for Marvell, deepening our long-standing relationship in cloud computing and data center semiconductors,” stated Matt Murphy, chairman and CEO at Marvell. “AWS’s EDA solutions will help Marvell rapidly and securely scale our silicon design process and capabilities to deliver industry-leading accelerated infrastructure with best-in-class time to market.”
Matt Garman, CEO at AWS, shared his perspective: “Building a cost and power-efficient cloud at the scale that only AWS can deliver begins with leading-edge semiconductors designed to meet the demanding infrastructure needs of our customers. “Our expanded collaboration with Marvell enables us to deploy our comprehensive semiconductor portfolio and specialized networking hardware to advance our mission to provide the industry’s most robust and scalable cloud and AI services to our customers.”
It’s worth noting that AWS also develops its own custom semiconductors, including those optimized for networking and AI applications. Marvell’s previous acquisitions of Innovium and Inphi Corporation were strategic moves designed to strengthen its market position in cloud computing networking equipment.
