Marvell announces breakthrough in custom high-bandwidth memory

Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) made several announcements late on Wednesday, including a break through in custom high-bandwidth memory that’s used in artificial intelligence processors.
Marvell said its new AI accelerator architecture, or XPU, will allow for 25% more compute power and 33% greater memory, while also allowing for improved power efficiency. The company is working with Micron (MU), Samsung and SK hynix on custom HBM processors for the accelerators.
“The leading cloud data center operators have scaled with custom infrastructure,” said Marvell executive Will Chu in a statement. “Enhancing XPUs by tailoring HBM for specific performance, power, and total cost of ownership is the latest step in a new paradigm in the way AI accelerators are designed and delivered. We’re very grateful to work with leading memory designers to accelerate this revolution and, help cloud data center operators continue to scale their XPUs and infrastructure for the AI era.”
The company also made a pair of related announcements, introducing a 1.6 Tbps LPO chipset to be used in optical networking to increase the speed and reach associated with copper cables; and a Coherent-lite 1.6 Tbps O-band-optimized chipset for data centers.
Marvell shares rose 1% in extended trading on the back of the announcements.

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