- Marvell partnership extension builds on long-term deal for AWS
- Marvell plans to accelerate silicon design and manufacturing
- AWS continues data center computing upgrades
AWS has announced an expansion of its partnership with Marvell Technology in a bid to boost collaboration in silicon design.
In the five-year agreement, the two companies will collaborate on the development of several AWS products along with data center infrastructure hardware design work.
Through its existing partnership with Marvell, AWS said it has rapidly advanced data center computing, networking and storage capabilities, delivering efficiency improvements and cost savings both internally and for customers.
Marvell sees improvements in silicon efficiency
In a statement, Marvell Technology said the deal will include the distribution of custom artificial intelligence products, optical digital signal processors (DSPs), PCIe retimers, Ethernet switching silicon solutions and more.
“Building a cost- and energy-efficient cloud at the scale only AWS can deliver starts with cutting-edge semiconductors designed to meet the demanding infrastructure needs of our customers,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman.
“Our expanded collaboration with Marvell allows us to deploy our comprehensive portfolio of semiconductors and specialized networking hardware to advance our mission to deliver the industry's most robust and scalable cloud and AI services to our customers.”
Looking ahead, Marvell said the relationship will allow it to accelerate silicon design, with AWS compute infrastructure supporting future design activities and helping to accelerate time to market for product lines.
The company has already taken a “cloud-first” approach, leveraging AWS's event-driven architecture (EDA) to improve performance and reduce costs.
“Strengthening our partnership with AWS marks an important milestone for Marvell, deepening our long-standing relationship in cloud computing and data center semiconductors,” said Matt Murphy, president and CEO of Marvell.
“AWS EDA solutions will help Marvell quickly and securely scale our silicon design process and capabilities to deliver industry-leading accelerated infrastructure with best-in-class time-to-market.”
AWS isn't the only major tech company Marvell has partnered with on silicon design lately.
At the OCP Global Summit in early 2024, the company revealed that its collaboration with Meta had developed a new networking chip, called FBNIC, aimed at improving the tech giant's internal networking capabilities.
This partnership saw the creation of a network interface controller (NIC) built using a 5nm process that combined custom firmware, software and hardware.
In all, Meta said the chip had delivered significant improvements in network performance.
