Marvell’s Purchase of Cavium Greatly Expands Its Infrastructure Products

In July Marvell Semiconductor purchased Cavium for about $6 billion, bringing together two major players in infrastructure silicon. Raj Singh, SVP and general manager of the infrastructure processor business unit at Marvell, said that both companies were focused on infrastructure and yet there was very little overlap, making it a pretty sweet merger. For instance, Marvell and Cavium both had data center storage products. But Singh said Cavium’s play was on the processor and server and storage connectivity side, while Marvell specializes in switch and PHY transceivers as well as storage solutions such as solid-state device (SSD) controllers. For server processors, Cavium brings its ThunderX to Marvell.