Marvell Bolsters Connectivity Portfolio with New 3.2T Protocol-aware Retimer and Second-generation 1.6T AEC DSP
Key Highlights
- ➤Alaska E 3.2T retimer delivers 16 lanes of 224G PAM4 connectivity
- ➤Second-generation Alaska A 1.6T AEC DSP moves to 3nm technology
- ➤Alaska A 1.6T doubles copper reach beyond six meters versus first generation
- ➤Both new Alaska connectivity products are currently sampling to customers
- ➤AI scale-up networking market projected to exceed $50 billion by 2030
Expert Statements
Xi Wang, Senior vice president and general manager, Connectivity Business Group at Marvell
“AI scale-up networks are moving rapidly to 224G signaling, making signal integrity, low latency and power efficiency critical to connecting increasingly dense infrastructure”
Xi Wang, Senior vice president and general manager, Connectivity Business Group at Marvell
“With the expanded Alaska portfolio, Marvell is delivering optimized 200G/lane retimer solutions across boards, backplanes and active electrical cables, giving hyperscalers the connectivity flexibility required to scale next-generation AI infrastructure.”
Vladimir Kozlov, Founder and CEO of LightCounting
“The AI scale-up networking market will exceed $50 billion by 2030, driven by the transition to rack-scale and multi-rack architectures and the move to 224G signaling”
Vladimir Kozlov, Founder and CEO of LightCounting
“As accelerator density increases, multi-protocol-capable retimers will be essential for delivering the bandwidth, reach and power efficiency required.”
Kurtis Bowman, UALink board chair and AMD Director of Architecture and Strategy
“Industry-leading connectivity providers like Marvell are increasingly adding UALink support to their portfolios due to its high-bandwidth, ultra-low latency and massive scalability”
Kurtis Bowman, UALink board chair and AMD Director of Architecture and Strategy
“Support for UALink in the Marvell second-generation retimer helps expand the open ecosystem for scale-up AI infrastructure, allowing data center customers to build out their next-generation infrastructure to meet the massive performance and scalability demands of tomorrow’s AI workloads.”
Greg Walz, Director of product marketing at ACS Highspeed Products
“Amphenol is committed to providing customers with the latest and greatest technologies that overcome the limits of copper to drive broad connectivity across racks and clusters”
Greg Walz, Director of product marketing at ACS Highspeed Products
“Leveraging Marvell high-performance, low-latency AEC DSPs, we’re enabling the next generation of accelerated infrastructure with optimized, high-bandwidth interconnects.”
Clay Miller, Senior manager, New Product Development, at Molex
“Molex backplanes and AECs are designed to address the rapidly increasing network bandwidth demands and the enormous processing capacity of today’s powerful AI servers”
Clay Miller, Senior manager, New Product Development, at Molex
“Marvell retimers offer ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency and optimal signal integrity, and we look forward to continuing to work with Marvell to provide new levels of performance and functionality to hyperscale and cloud data center customers.”
Marvell Bolsters Connectivity Portfolio with New 3.2T Protocol-aware Retimer and Second-generation 1.6T AEC DSP
* Scaling connectivity to 3.2T: Marvell® Alaska® E 3.2T protocol-aware Ethernet, UALink™ and ESUN retimer delivers 16 lanes of 224G PAM4 connectivity for high-bandwidth XPU-to-XPU and XPU-to-switch scale-up architectures.
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