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MRVLMarvell Technology
Custom silicon (AWS Trainium) and optical DSPs for data-center interconnect.
Plate I — Pillar-Purity Score
8/ 10
AWS custom silicon + optical DSPs — double AI exposure.
Methodology — How we score
Plate II — The Thesis
Why it’s on the list.
Marvell has emerged as AWS's preferred custom-silicon partner (Trainium 2) and dominates optical DSPs for DC interconnect. Two legs of the same AI-infra thesis in one name.
Plate III — Supply Chain
Upstream & downstream.
See the full chain plate for all 37 names.
Upstream — what feeds MRVL
Downstream — where MRVL feeds into
Plate IV — Thesis Breakers
What would invalidate this.
- Risk 01AWS in-houses Trainium design
- Risk 02Optical-DSP competition
Plate V — Also on the Silicon plate
Siblings by pillar.
- NVDAScore 10The king: GPUs, the CUDA moat, Mellanox networking, and the expanding software stack.
- TSMScore 10Fabs every leading-edge AI chip on earth — the real bottleneck of the entire stack.
- ASMLScore 10EUV lithography monopoly; no EUV means no sub-5nm chips.
- ALABScore 10PCIe retimers and CXL connectivity — the glue chips inside every AI rack.
- CRDOScore 10Active electrical cables and SerDes for AI-rack interconnect; pure-play AI networking IC.
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Next earnings: 2026-05-28.
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