{"id":885286,"date":"2025-12-03T06:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/?p=885286"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:20:52","slug":"marvelk-buys-celestial-for-3-25bn-to-get-into-photonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/news\/business\/marvelk-buys-celestial-for-3-25bn-to-get-into-photonics-2025-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvell to buy Celestial for $3.25bn to get into photonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"context-widget-module__container__b9mKr article-body-module__context_widget__sq1EI\" data-testid=\"ContextWidget\">\n<div class=\"context-widget-module__content__lI1uo\">\n<p>Marvell is to buy photonics startup Celestial for $3.25bn &#8211; $1bn in cash and the rest in 27 million Marvell shares &#8211; to get it into the photonics business.<\/p><div class=\"elect-content\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"elect-1848722484\"><div id=\"x02\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if ($(window).width() <= 768) { googletag.display('x02'); } <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have a silicon photonics powerhouse at Marvell when this is all done,\u201d said Marvell CEO Matt Murphy.<\/p><div class=\"elect-test\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"elect-1081125835\"><div id=\"DFP-EW-InRead1\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if ($(window).width() > 768) { googletag.display('DFP-EW-InRead1'); } <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<BR>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Datacentre \u00a0architectures are changing. Systems are no longer confined to a single rack \u2013 they are evolving into multi-rack configurations connecting hundreds of XPUs with an integrated high-bandwidth, ultra-low latency, any-to-any scale-up fabric.<\/p><div class=\"elect-post-content-2\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"elect-749807090\"><div id=\"DFP-EW-InRead1-Mobile\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if ($(window).width() <= 768) { googletag.display('DFP-EW-InRead1-Mobile'); } <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>This architecture allows each XPU to access the memory of every other XPU directly. These advanced fabrics demand purpose-built switches and protocols such as UALink, engineered to deliver the performance and efficiency required at scale.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-885296 size-full\" title=\"Marvell to buy Celestial for $3.25 bn to get into photonics\" src=\"https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/03070629\/IMG_1417.webp\" alt=\"Marvell to buy Celestial for $3.25 bn to get into photonics\" width=\"398\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/03070629\/IMG_1417.webp 398w, https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/03070629\/IMG_1417-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Given the power, bandwidth, latency, and reach requirements of multi-rack scale-up fabrics, interconnects will increasingly transition to all-optical connections.<\/p>\n<p>This acquisition positions Marvell to \u00a0capture a brand-new semiconductor TAM for optical interconnects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe acquisition of Celestial AI is a transformative step in Marvell\u2019s evolution and expands our leadership in AI connectivity, as scale-up becomes the next frontier in AI infrastructure,\u201d adds \u00a0Murphy. \u201cThis \u00a0builds on our technology leadership, broadens our addressable market in scale-up connectivity, and accelerates our roadmap to deliver the industry\u2019s most complete connectivity platform for AI and cloud customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marvell is expecting \u00a0$10bn in total revenue for the next fiscal year, a 25% jump in datacentre revenue and a 20% increase in its custom IC business.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that photonics \u00a0technology will start being used in datacentres in 2027\/8.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body-module__element__5eCce\" data-testid=\"element\">\n<div lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"Dianomi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvell is to buy photonics startup Celestial for $3.25bn &#8211; $1bn in cash and the rest in 27 million Marvell shares &#8211; to get it into the photonics business. \u201cWe\u2019re &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":885291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16039,12690],"tags":[14319],"class_list":["post-885286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-design","tag-marvell"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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