Custom 5nm NIC Displays Impressive Performance Marvell and Meta announced the co-development of the FBNIC. The FBNIC is a custom 5nm NIC ASIC built to optimize the performance of its infrastructure for general purpose servers. Marvell contributed the board design to the OCP community. The announcement was significant for the… Read More »Marvell Showcases Meta FBNIC at OCP 2024
Taking Networking Power Consumption to Zero Won’t Allow You to Get More AI Into Your Data Centers With the emergence of AI/ML workloads, there is an industry-wide sense of urgency and panic about how we will power all these new servers. As such, there is tremendous pressure on all equipment… Read More »When Thinking About AI Power Consumption, Networking is the Least of Your Problems
Retimers Needed as Distances Shrink in PCIe Gen 5 and Gen 6 SpeedsThe server market remained on Gen 3 (8 Gbps/lane) for several server design cycles, leading the market to become complacent about how quickly server bandwidth could increase inside the server and at the NIC level. The market saw… Read More »PCIe Retimers Market to Surge Driven by AI/ML Computing
Operators Need DSP Diversity as Market Size About to Expand Significantly The DSP market is entering a significant expansion phase driven by new and expanding workloads and additional speeds and feeds. Traditionally, most data center DSPs were for switch-to-switch links inside the data center. However, with cloud providers pushing the… Read More »AI/ML and Multiple Speed Transitions Driving Need for More DSPs
Cloud Operators Continue to Push for Silicon Diversity as We Enter the 51.2 Tbps Switch Era As we engaged with Cloud Operators over the past two quarters, the shift away from COVID-19 supply constraints and toward next-generation build-outs became apparent in a changing of priorities. In our 4Q reports, one… Read More »AI/ML Networking Driving Need for Silicon Diversity
AI/ML, and HPC to Inspire Significant Bandwidth Growth and Drive 112 Gbps and 224 Gbps SERDES Technologies INCLINE VILLAGE, NEV. – Jan. 31, 2024 – A newly released report by 650 Group, a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center, and cloud markets, indicates that the Merchant Silicon… Read More »Merchant Silicon Market Dominated by Broadcom and Marvell in 2023, According to 650 Group
Combination of AI, ML, and HPC Driving Significant Bandwidth Growth and Propel 112 Gbps and 224 Gbps SERDES Technologies Incline Village, Nevada – April 13, 2023 – A newly released report by 650 Group, a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center, and cloud markets, indicates that the… Read More »Merchant Silicon Market Dominated by Broadcom and Marvell in 2022; According to 650 Group
Data Center – $2.5B annualized run rate Driven by DPUs, Inphi, and Innovium acquisitions, Marvell has grown robustly in data center, geared towards the Cloud. Marvell is well positioned to the higher growth portions in the data center. Our research indicates Cloud CAPEX will prioritize AI/ML and DCI in 2023.… Read More »Marvell is Growing Robustly in its Four Core Markets – Highlights Gains During Industry Analyst Day
Hyperscalers, Open RAN, Private 5G and chip announcements were top news at the MWC show in Barcelona last week. Based on disclosures at the show, Open RAN looks to go commercial in 2023 and 2024, hyperscalers are obtaining contracts to carry an increasing amount of telecom-related workloads, Rakuten Symphony is… Read More »MWC 2022 Recap
This week’s MWC Barcelona 2021 had several themes; the most important was that several outsiders to the telecom industry were ever-present. The new entrants – the party-crashers – included Starlink, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, and NVidia. These new players are forcing change either through economics, new technology,… Read More »The Party-Crashers of MWC21
