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Marvell Technology (acquirer of Celestial AI)

Marvell Technology (acquirer of Celestial AI)

Semiconductor Company

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Nvidia builds an AI empire through billion-dollar ecosystem investments

Money Moves

Integrating custom chips and networking into Nvidia's NVLink Fusion platform

In ten months, Nvidia has poured roughly $14 billion into six companies that supply the chips, networking gear, optical links, and cloud capacity its artificial intelligence platform depends on. The latest: a $2 billion stake in Marvell Technology, the custom-chip designer behind Amazon's Trainium and Microsoft's Maia accelerators, announced March 31, 2026. Marvell's stock jumped 13% on the news.

Updated May 30

The race to replace copper inside AI data centers

New Capabilities

Completed acquisition of Celestial AI; building optical interconnect portfolio

When engineers double a copper cable's data rate, electrical noise doubles and usable length halves—strangling the AI industry. As graphics processing units (GPUs) push toward 224 gigabits per second per lane, passive copper cables inside data centers reach less than one meter before the signal degrades.

Updated May 30