Marvell Technology, Inc. (MRVL) news and analysis
Lam Research (LRCX) falls 12% after supply warning as chip stocks suffer worst day since June
Lam's record quarter wasn't enough. Its finance chief said some December shipments will slip to March, and China's share of sales is set to fall.
Marvell (MRVL), Microsoft, and Oracle are writing an open standard to build key security into data center servers
Three companies want encryption keys protected inside the server itself.
Marvell (MRVL) shows 2nm optical chips for 3.2T AI networks
Marvell (MRVL) says four of its 38 demos at ECOC 2026 in Malaga are industry firsts, all built on 2nm chips: 400G-per-lane optical PAM4, 800G ZR with MACsec, and 1.6T ZR. A 102.4 terabit co-packaged optics platform targets the point where copper runs out of reach in AI networks.
Three AI CEOs asked for a slowdown. Chipmakers sold off worldwide, and cybersecurity stocks went up.
Dario Amodei asked AI labs to slow the pace of capability development, and Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed. The selloff that followed hit the AI supply chain and bid up the companies that sell defenses against it.
Alphabet (GOOGL) backs chip startup Celero at a $3 billion value. It is building chips to link AI data centers over fiber.
Alphabet's growth fund CapitalG is backing Celero Communications at a valuation above $3 billion, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The two-year-old startup is developing chips to move AI data over fiber between racks and nearby data centers, and its founders developed coherent chips at Inphi and Marvell.
HPE gave Oracle (ORCL) a warrant for 4.16 million shares at a penny each. Two months later, it announced the deal.
The September 2 press release said only that HPE had issued Oracle warrants. The 10-Q filed the next day has the number of shares, the penny strike, the vesting trigger, the expiry date, and a July 2 issue date.
Nvidia (NVDA) owns $90.7 billion of other companies. Its public stock portfolio has lost $16.4 billion since June 30.
Nvidia's latest 10-Q carries $42.8 billion of marketable equity securities and $47.9 billion of funded private stakes, with $25 billion more committed but not yet paid in. Its June 30 13F positions have given back about $16.4 billion since, and a $105 billion guarantee on an OpenAI data center sits off the balance sheet entirely.
Nvidia's (NVDA) $3.5 billion MediaTek deal turns the chips built to replace its GPUs into an ecosystem play
Nvidia is buying $3.5 billion of MediaTek convertible bonds as MediaTek joins NVLink Fusion to build custom XPUs. The bigger reveal is NVHBM, Nvidia's custom memory claiming 30% more bandwidth than HBM4E, with Amazon's Trainium4 first in line.
Marvell (MRVL) fell 10.3% on margins. Now Dell (DELL), Credo (CRDO) and Broadcom (AVGO) report into the same question
Marvell fell 10.3% Friday after guiding gross margin lower on a greater custom mix. Ten of the names we track report between September 1 and 3, and Broadcom, Credo and Ciena all sell into the same build.
AI stock battle week 6: all six AIs were green on Thursday, then Friday knocked two below $10,000 (August 29, 2026)
Every model in the contest was above its $10,000 starting stake at Thursday's close. One Friday afternoon took Claude and Meta AI below it, the first time any model has ended a week under water.
Korean investors put $798 million into a 3x leveraged semiconductor fund (SOXL) in one week. It fell 9.5% the next session.
Korean investors made a 3x semiconductor fund their number one overseas purchase in the week of Nvidia's earnings, with $798.04 million going in. That's about 58 times what they put into Nvidia itself.
Marvell (MRVL) now sees $18 billion in revenue by fiscal 2028, and that already includes the Google deal
Marvell reported record second-quarter revenue of $2.739 billion, up 37%, and CEO Matt Murphy raised the outlook on the call to about $12 billion for fiscal 2027 and $18 billion for fiscal 2028. Revenue tied to the Google warrant deal is already in those numbers.
Wolfe Research named Alphabet (GOOGL) a top 2027 pick and sees cloud platform revenue up 125%
Wolfe Research named Alphabet (GOOGL) a top pick for 2027, kept its $460 price target and raised its 2027 estimates. Its third-quarter cloud platform number runs far above the Street.
Nvidia (NVDA) fell six straight days. Earnings will test the $775 billion AI spending boom.
Nvidia enters its Aug. 26 earnings report on a six-session losing streak, its longest since 2022. It has beaten EPS estimates for 14 quarters straight, and the stock still fell the next day six of the last eight times.
Marvell (MRVL) jumps 13% after giving Google a warrant worth up to $12.2 billion in new AI chip deal
Marvell signed a custom AI chip deal with Google and issued a warrant for up to 58.97 million shares at $206.58 each, worth about $12.2 billion. MRVL jumped as much as 13%, while Broadcom and other AI chip suppliers fell.
For the first time, more money is going into running AI than building it. What that means for Nvidia (NVDA), Broadcom (AVGO), Marvell (MRVL) and AMD
Inference, running AI models, now costs more than training them, and that rewards custom chips and memory over raw GPUs. Here's what it means for Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvell, AMD and Micron.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood week 9: it wrote down why indie Semiconductor (INDI) was a bad buy, then bought it
Claude AI flagged the indie Semiconductor (INDI) setup as the shape of most of its past losses, bought it anyway, and was stopped out 23 hours later. Both stops fired within two seconds of Tuesday's open as chip stocks sold off. The account is down about a third.
An AI model trains across 100,000 chips that all have to talk at once. The stocks that wire them: Arista (ANET), Broadcom (AVGO), Coherent (COHR) and Astera Labs (ALAB)
Tens of thousands of GPUs have to act like one machine, and the network that connects them is a fast-growing slice of every AI buildout. Here's what Arista, Broadcom, Marvell, the optics makers and Astera Labs each do.
The AI trade rotates to a new sector every week. Which one is it going to be this week?
The AI trade has rotated by sector almost every week: software, then photonics, then memory. So which corner of AI runs next? I make the case for the one group that keeps riding along without ever leading.
Anthropic is building AI chips and paying up to $850,000 to teach Claude how to design them.
Anthropic confirmed Wednesday it is building an in-house Custom Silicon team for Claude, the first time it has said so publicly. The job listings pay $320,000 to $485,000 for the chip designers and $500,000 to $850,000 for the researcher teaching Claude to do the design work.
Korea's Kospi fell 10.84% and halted trading. Nvidia (NVDA) is flat and Micron (MU) is down 10% (July 28, 2026)
Korea's Kospi closed at 6,023.66 on Tuesday, down 10.84%, its fourth largest one-day fall on record, after Korea Exchange stopped all trading for 20 minutes. Samsung and SK Hynix each lost more than 13%. The US carryover went into memory and storage, with Sandisk (SNDK) down 14.52% and Micron (MU) down 9.54%, while Nvidia (NVDA) held flat and the Dow rose.
The busiest stock on Hyperliquid isn't Nvidia. It's SK Hynix (SKHY), and it out-traded Ethereum
Real world assets did $25.1 billion on Hyperliquid in the week of July 13 to 19, out-trading crypto on the venue for the first time. The busiest contract is not Nvidia or Tesla. It is SK Hynix, which passed Ethereum for second place on the whole exchange, and whose Nasdaq listing (SKHY) fell 8.8% on Friday.
Micron (MU), SK Hynix and AMD just gave chip stocks their first back-to-back gain in two weeks (July 21, 2026)
Micron (MU) closed up about 12 percent, SK Hynix's ADR about 14 percent, and AMD 8 percent Tuesday, chip stocks' first back-to-back gain in two weeks. A Bank of America upgrade on memory demand and a new AMD-Microsoft Azure deal did the heavy lifting.
The Close, July 14: IBM lost a quarter of its value, and SK Hynix's Nasdaq stock jumped 27%
IBM lost about a quarter of its value in a single session after a weak preliminary report, and the damage spread across enterprise software. SK Hynix's brand-new Nasdaq stock went the other way, jumping 27% on a day chips broadly rallied.