Marvell to Acquire XConn Technologies, Expanding Leadership in AI Data Center Connectivity

Adds Advanced PCIe and CXL Switching Silicon Portfolio; Expands Marvell’s UALink Scale-up Switch Team with Top Engineering Talent

Marvell Technology, Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire XConn Technologies (“XConn”), a provider of advanced PCIe and CXL switching silicon. The acquisition expands Marvell’s switching portfolio by adding XConn’s PCIe and CXL products and augments Marvell’s Ultra Accelerator Link (“UALink”) scale-up switch team, adding highly experienced engineering talent with deep domain expertise in high-performance switching.

As AI workloads scale, data center system design is evolving from single-rack deployments to larger, multi-rack configurations. These next-generation platforms increasingly require a high-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency scale-up fabric, such as UALink, to efficiently connect large numbers of XPUs and enable more flexible resource sharing across the system.

UALink is a new open industry standard purpose-built for scale-up connectivity, enabling efficient, high-speed communication so multiple accelerators can operate together as a single, larger system. UALink builds on decades of PCIe ecosystem innovation and incorporates proven high-speed I/O techniques to meet the bandwidth, latency, and reach requirements of next-generation accelerated infrastructure.

Together, Marvell and XConn bring together a significantly larger, integrated team to fully address the rapidly emerging opportunity in UALink switching and to comprehensively support the growing list of customers and partners who want to work with Marvell to evolve their next-generation AI platforms.