Marvell to Acquire XConn Technologies for Data Center

Marvell Technology has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire XConn Technologies, a provider of advanced PCIe and CXL switching silicon. The deal is designed to expand Marvell’s switching portfolio by adding XConn’s PCIe and CXL products.

Marvell says the acquisition also augments its Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) scale-up switch team with experienced engineering talent. The company links the move to AI workload growth and the shift from single-rack deployments to multi-rack data center configurations that require high-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency scale-up fabrics like UALink.

The excerpt describes UALink as an 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.