Nvidia and Marvell Technology Inc. have entered into an agreement to connect Marvell to the Nvidia AI factory and AI-RAN ecosystem through Nvidia NVLink Fusion.
The partnership will give users of Nvidia architectures more choice and flexibility in developing infrastructure including silicon photonics, which both companies will use to collaborate on new technology.
Additionally, Nvidia invested $2 billion in Marvell.
Marvell will provide custom XPUs and NVLink Fusion-compatible scale-up networking while Nvidia will provide supporting technologies like:
- Vera CPU
- ConnectX NICs
- Bluefield DPUs
- NVLink interconnect
- Spectrum-X switches
- Rack-scale AI compute
The companies will also partner to transform telecommunications network into AI infrastructure with Nvidia Aerial AI-RAN for 5G/6G and networking for AI. This will include optical interconnect solutions and silicon photonics technology.
“The inference inflection has arrived. Token generation demand is surging, and the world is racing to build AI factories,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Together with Marvell, we are enabling customers to leverage NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure ecosystem and scale to build specialized AI compute.”
