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Chip Maker Marvell Agrees to Buy Lumentum in $80 Billion Deal
Marvell Technology is acquiring optical component manufacturer Lumentum in an $80 billion all-stock transaction to expand its data center AI infrastructure.
What: Marvell designs custom chips for data center connectivity, while Lumentum specializes in laser technology and fiber-optic communication; the move aims to capture growing demand for AI server-to-server data movement.
Why it matters: This consolidation indicates that the bottleneck for AI infrastructure is shifting from the processors themselves to the optical interconnections required to move data between them at scale.
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Marvell designs custom AI chips and other technology that connects processors and moves data around data centers, and Lumentum has technology that uses light to move data between chips and servers.
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