Marvell Technology To Acquire Cavium

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/06/2017 09:48 AM | source: | 1 comment(s)

Marvell, which you guys know from SSD controllers, is in advanced talks to combine with Cavium Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that would create a chip maker worth some $14 billion.

Marvell fabs chips for hard disks, SDDs, printers and automotive. Cavium, uses ARM and MIPS chips to fab switches, routers and security devices. A deal could be announced in the next few weeks assuming the talks don’t fall apart. The Marvell-Cavium merger follows another high-profile chipmaker deal also reported on Friday. Broadcom is planning to make a huge, unsolicited bid for chipmaker Qualcomm.

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#5489732 Posted on: 11/06/2017 05:11 PM

Could be a pretty interesting merger. I imagine a possible product outcome of this would be a very high-performance and very tiny NAS, and perhaps may create some compelling server hardware. I don't see why the two companies couldn't just work together for such products, though.

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