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With Celestial AI Buy, Marvell Scales Up The Datacenter And Itself

December 4, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It was only a matter of time before Marvell was going to make another silicon photonics acquisition, and the $2.5 billion sale of its automotive Ethernet business to Infineon for $2.5 billion has given the company this past summer netted out to about half of the $3.25 billion that the company is shelling out to get its hands on Celestial AI, one of the several upstarts that hopes to hook compute engines, memory, and switches together using on-chip optical engines and light pipes. …

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In A Peer-To-Peer Datacenter, PCI-Express Fabrics Will Be Pervasive

November 30, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on In A Peer-To-Peer Datacenter, PCI-Express Fabrics Will Be Pervasive

Supercomputers are expensive, and getting increasingly so. Even if they are delivering impressive performance gains over the past decade, modern HPC workloads require an incredible amount of performance, and this is particularly true of any workload that is going to blend together traditional HPC simulation and modeling with some sort of machine learning training and inference. …