Tuesday
Jul202021
Marvell's first Inphi chips following its acquisition
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 10:47AM Marvell unveiled three new devices at the recent OFC virtual conference and show.
One chip is its latest coherent digital signal processor (DSP), dubbed Deneb.
Nigel AlvaresThe other two chips, for use within the data centre, are a PAM-4 (4-level pulse-amplitude modulation) DSP, and a 1.6-terabit Ethernet physical layer device (PHY).
The chips are Marvell’s first announced Inphi products since it acquired the company in April.
Inphi’s acquisition adds $0.7 billion to Marvell’s $3 billion annual revenues while the more than 1,000 staff brings the total number of employees to 6,000.
Marvell spends 30 per cent of its revenues on R&D.
