Marvell has confirmed plans to acquire Celestial AI in a deal worth up to $5.5 billion, a figure that immediately places it among the most aggressive acquisitions any mid-tier silicon vendor has made in the current AI cycle, and marks a decisive shift in how the company intends to compete against Nvidia, AMD, and Intel in the rest of the decade.
Celestial AI spent much of the last four years building a photonic interconnect platform intended to deliver high-bandwidth communication among accelerators…
