SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Nov. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell
(NASDAQ: MRVL) today unveiled the industry's first 112G 5nm SerDes
solution that has been validated in hardware. The DSP-based SerDes
boasts industry-leading performance, power and area, helping to
propel 112G as the interconnect of choice for next generation 5G,
enterprise, and cloud data center infrastructure. Marvell has
recently secured a new custom ASIC design win customer that will
embed this new IP to build next generation top-of-rack (ToR) and
spine switches for leading hyperscale data centers around the
world. The Marvell 5nm SerDes solution doubles the bandwidth of
current systems based on 56G while enabling the deployment of 112G
I/Os in many exciting new applications, including network and data
center switching, network traffic management, machine learning
training and inference, and application-specific accelerators.
Today's news, which comes on the heels of the company's
announcement with TSMC of its 5nm portfolio, further
strengthens Marvell's leading data infrastructure offerings in
the industry's most advanced process geometry. The 112G 5nm
SerDes solution is part of Marvell's industry-leading IP portfolio
that addresses the full spectrum of infrastructure requirements and
includes processor subsystems, encryption engines, system-on-chip
fabrics, chip-to-chip interconnects, and a variety of physical
layer interfaces.
Marvell's 112G 5nm SerDes offers breakthrough performance with
the ability to operate at 112G PAM4 across channels with >40dB
insertion loss, providing margin that is critical for high
reliability infrastructure applications. The solution also delivers
power reduction of more than 25% compared to 7nm, enabling systems
with tight thermal/power constraints and helping to drive down
total cost of ownership. The power reduction of Marvell's
high-speed SerDes enables scale up of bandwidth within acutely
constrained 5G applications.
Marvell will offer a complete product suite of PHYs, switches,
data processor units (DPUs), custom server processors, controllers,
accelerators and custom ASICs in 5nm, delivering end-to-end
interoperable infrastructure solutions. This interoperability
between Marvell components will allow customers to significantly
reduce their product development and validation cycle time, and
time-to-market.
For Marvell's ASIC customers, this IP further enhances the
industry's most comprehensive offering for leading-edge custom
solutions. The Marvell ASIC business unit is engaged with customers
across multiple markets looking to take advantage of this
first-to-market proven silicon with differentiated power,
performance, and area. These designs will lead the industry in
bandwidth density.
"Our new 112G 5nm SerDes solution, with its industry-leading
power, performance and area metrics is a true game changer and will
help scale data infrastructure to meet growing interconnect
requirements," said Sandeep
Bharathi, senior vice president of Central Engineering at
Marvell. "System performance is typically limited by bandwidth and
power in most infrastructure applications, and our new 112G
solution in 5nm addresses this by doubling the bandwidth, while
reducing the overall I/O power."
"We are excited to bring this proven 112G SerDes to our custom
ASIC partners looking for the highest throughput at the lowest
power in the industry. Our customers in multiple markets have
confirmed for us that this IP exceeds their system requirements for
performance and power consumption," said Kevin O'Buckley, vice president and general
manager of the ASIC BU at Marvell. "Leveraging this 5nm SerDes IP
across our Marvell platform allows our customers to build entire
interoperable data center, wireless and wired networking systems
using Marvell standard products, customized standard products and
full custom ASIC solutions."
"Marvell is clearly staking out a leadership position as the
market rapidly transitions to 100G serial," said Alan Weckel, founder and technology analyst of
650 Group. "We expect that 100G serial will be a foundational speed
similar to 10G and 25G, and an important technology in enabling the
evolution of data center architectures optimized for emerging
workloads such as AI and machine learning. By bringing this 112G
5nm SerDes solution to the industry now, Marvell is accelerating
the deployment of next generation infrastructure and raising the
bar on performance capabilities across compute, networking and
storage."
About Marvell
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world, we're building solutions on the most powerful foundation:
our partnerships with our customers. Trusted by the world's leading
technology companies for 25 years, we move, store, process and
secure the world's data with semiconductor solutions designed for
our customers' current needs and future ambitions. Through a
process of deep collaboration and transparency, we're ultimately
changing the way tomorrow's enterprise, cloud, automotive, and
carrier architectures transform—for the better.
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