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Citrini analyst Jukan commented on social media regarding the "Marvell acquisition of Lumentum" event, stating that the only explanation for Lumentum's management accepting this deal is their lack of confidence in the current AI development cycle. They believe the market will collapse within two to three years.

According to Marvell's announcement, the company has reached a final agreement to acquire Lumentum in an all-stock transaction.The agreement stipulates that Lumentum shareholders will receive 4.500 shares of Marvell common stock for each share they own, implying an enterprise value of approximately $115 billion for Lumentum, equivalent to about $1132 per share, representing a premium of approximately 23.9% over the closing price on October 28, which was unaffected by rumors. After the transaction is completed, existing Marvell shareholders will hold about 67%, while Lumentum shareholders will hold about 33%.Both parties stated that the merger will integrate Marvell's capabilities in electrical and optical interconnects, switching, and custom chips, along with Lumentum's strengths in high-performance lasers, optical transceiver modules, and optical circuit switching, aiming to create a full-stack connectivity portfolio for AI infrastructure and expand the addressable market size to approximately $550 billion.The transaction is expected to achieve over $1 billion in annualized operating cost synergies and is anticipated to enhance Marvell's non-GAAP earnings per share in the first year post-closing. The closing is expected in the first half of 2028, pending approval from both parties' shareholders and regulators. After the closing, Matt Murphy will continue to serve as Chairman and CEO, and three directors from Lumentum, including CEO Michael Hurlston, will join Marvell's board of directors.

Marvell Technology submitted documents to the U.S. SEC disclosing that the company has expanded its custom semiconductor collaboration with Google. The two parties signed a commercial agreement on July 29, covering AI inference accelerators, storage controllers, network interface controllers, memory interface controllers, and near-memory computing products related to the Google TPU ecosystem.As part of the collaboration, Marvell issued warrants to Google, allowing it to purchase up to approximately 58.97 million shares of the company's common stock at a price of $206.58 per share, with a total exercise value of about $12.2 billion. Approximately 1.36 million shares will vest over the first year, while the remaining shares will vest in batches based on Google's future revenue from custom product purchases (one batch for every $500 million in revenue), lasting until the fiscal year 2033, corresponding to a potential cumulative revenue cap of about $120 billion. Following the announcement, Marvell's stock price surged over 11%, while competitor Broadcom's stock price fell. Analysts believe this move strengthens Marvell's position in the custom chip sector for hyperscale cloud vendors.

According to official news, Marvell Technology announced the launch of a new generation of memory solution portfolio for AI infrastructure, covering server-level AI storage, rack-level CXL memory expansion and pooling, as well as multi-rack optical interconnect shared memory, aimed at addressing the growing memory capacity and bandwidth bottlenecks in Agentic AI inference processes.Marvell stated that as AI model sizes increase, context windows extend, and KV Cache demand grows, traditional tightly coupled architectures of computing and memory are limiting AI inference efficiency. Through memory disaggregation, memory resources can be made more independent of computing resource expansion, improving GPU utilization and reducing data movement latency. The products released include:Bravera SC6 PCIe 6.0 SSD controller: Designed for AI inference storage scenarios, it helps cloud service providers migrate more KV Cache to high-performance SSDs, enhancing infrastructure efficiency. This product features an architecture compatible with multi-vendor NAND and is expected to begin sampling in the fourth quarter of 2026.Marvell Structera X memory expansion solution: Based on CXL technology, it supports rack-level memory expansion and resource pooling, helping data centers share and allocate memory resources more flexibly, reducing AI infrastructure costs.Marvell Photonic Fabric optical interconnect memory solution: Constructs a shared memory architecture across multiple racks using optical interconnect technology, supporting up to 32TB warm KV Cache offloading and helping AI inference clusters enhance throughput capacity.Marvell stated that the Photonic Fabric solution can achieve a 2 to 3 times increase in Token throughput under existing data center space and power consumption constraints, supporting larger scale models and longer context AI applications.Marvell executive Will Chu stated that AI infrastructure is transitioning from a single server architecture to a system where computing, memory, and connectivity operate in synergy, and in the future, memory needs to expand more independently to enhance resource utilization and Token efficiency.As the demand for AI Agents and large model inference continues to grow, memory capacity, bandwidth, and data transfer efficiency are becoming new focal points of competition in AI infrastructure, following computing power.

According to Gate market data, U.S. semiconductor stocks continued to rise in pre-market trading. Marvell Technology rose by 4.3%, Qualcomm rose by 2.8%, and TSMC rose by 1.8%. Nvidia rose by 1.1%, AMD rose by 2.8%, and Broadcom rose by 2.5%. Micron rose by 4.2%, ARM rose by 4.3%, and Applied Materials rose by 4.2%.

Recently, the technology sector of the US stock market has been active, with stocks related to memory chips and data center infrastructure continuously attracting capital attention. According to Gate market data, Micron Technology (MUUSDT) reached a high of $1077.17 in 24 hours, currently reported at $1059.81, with a 24-hour increase of 3.76%; Marvell Technology (MRVLUSDT) reached a high of $330.72 in 24 hours, currently reported at $322.68, with a 24-hour increase of 47.06%.According to CoinGlass data, Gate MU (Micron Technology) had a 24-hour trading volume of $13.1083 million; Gate MRVL (Marvell Technology) had a 24-hour trading volume of $10.4389 million, with MRVL (Marvell Technology) seeing an increase in trading volume of 1255.60%, both ranking among the industry's leaders.

According to Jinshi reports, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose by 4.2%, with Marvell Technology (MRVL.O) increasing by 24%, becoming the leading stock in the index.

According to market news, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated during the Marvell CEO keynote speech at the Computex conference in Taiwan that Marvell is expected to become "the next trillion-dollar company."