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Marvell Technology Before Quarterly Results: Custom Silicon Growth as a Price Driver?

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Marvell Technology has been selected by Google to develop custom silicon for the search and advertising giant, including AI inference accelerators and other components for its TPU ecosystem.

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And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal It's an open secret that the major cloud providers don't actually design their custom silicon from scratch. There's not much value in reinventing the wheel, so they often outsource big and undifferentiated chunks of chip design to IP houses like Broadcom, Marvell, Arm, and others. Google's partner of choice for its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) has largely been Broadcom - though the chip giant's involvement was only made public earlier this year. However, Google's relationship with Broadcom was apparently never monogamous. In an SEC filing this week, Marvell entered the chat, announcing that the Chocolate Factory had tapped the IP house to develop custom silicon for the search and advertising giant. Among the products slated for development were "custom silicon programs that attach to the TPU ecosystem" including AI inference accelerators, storage controllers, network interface controllers, memory interface controllers, and near memory compute. The SEC filing doesn't go into specifics as to which technologies Google will adopt, nor does it offer any insights into the cloud provider's relationship with Broadcom. All of the technologies listed in the filing are ones Broadcom is more than capable of furnishing. It also doesn't mean that Broadcom will stop building TPUs for Google, it simply means...

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