The Marvell Essential Technology Podcast

Listen to Radha Nagarajan, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Marvell’s Optical and Copper Connectivity Business Group and Chris Banuelos on this week’s episode, discussing a recent white paper “2.5D Heterogeneous Integration for Silicon Photonics

Engines in Optical Transceivers.” Learn more about the key takeaways of heterogeneous integration, what it means for cloud data center infrastructure and use cases. Read the white paper: 

Join Hugh Durdan, Vice President of Marketing in the ASIC Business Unit and podcast host Chris Banuelos on this week’s episode, discussing all things 3nm.  Learn more about how 3nm is advancing cloud-optimized silicon solutions, the driver behind the evolution, more on Marvell’s recent announcement on the 3nm silicon platform and much more.  Read the press release: https://bit.ly/3P68F24

Join Mats Oberg, Associate Vice President, DSP Architecture and podcast host Chris Banuelos on this week’s episode, discussing the heart of hard disk drive (HDD) controller design -- Marvell’s read channel technology. Learn about the challenges of data storage as data continues its explosive growth, future technologies shaping HDD controller design, and what is next for HDDs. Be sure to check out our other recent podcast episode 24 “Scaling HDD Capacity in the Data Center” to learn more.

Todd Owens, Field Marketing Director, and Nishant Lodha, Director of Product Marketing – Emerging Technologies, discuss some of the metrics most commonly used to refer to storage performance, how the figures are derived from Marvell as well as other I/O device manufacturers, how performance figures drive decisions, and an in-depth discussion around IOPS.  Learn more: https://bit.ly/3STtLkH

This week, join Sarvagya Kochak, Senior Director, Product Marketing, and podcast host Chris Banuelos to discuss the fundamentals of Compute Express Link (CXL) technology. Marvell, along with a consortium of industry leaders, is transforming the next generation of cloud data centers with a new industry standard for connecting processors, memory, and accelerators. With CXL based memory expansion and pooling, Marvell is uniquely positioned to transform the data center with architectures that have significantly improved scale, flexibility, and performance. Hear why CXL is imperative to the data center, its use cases, and future trends.

Xi Wang, Vice President of Optical DSP Business Unit, and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss optical connectivity – the foundation of today’s internet infrastructure, enabling the emergence of hyperscale data centers and the new era of wireless communication.  Cloud-based services continuously drive the need for data center hardware with high bandwidth capacity along with low power consumption.  Just as data centers begin their transition to 400G and 800G, the bar is rising towards the next evolution of 1.6T and 3.2T, with the same demands for high performance and low power with minimal financial impact. Tune in to hear what is driving the transition and learn more about the advancements needed to enable data centers to advance capacity for future generations to come.

Matt Kim, Vice President, HDD & SCBU Marketing, and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss Marvell’s HDD solutions, powered by a comprehensive portfolio of cloud-optimized silicon solutions for the data center.  Join the conversation to learn more about Hard Disk Drive’s (HDD) relevance to the data center, Marvell’s unique solutions, and what is next for the HDD industry. With over 25+ years of experience developing storage products and over 5 billion HDD controllers sold, Marvell’s cutting edge Bravera™ HDD family of products enables customers to meet surging data demands with cost effective solutions.  Read the press release mentioned in this podcast: https://bit.ly/3xFMyrB 

Samuel Liu, Senior Director, Product Line Management, and podcast host Chris Banuelos take a deep dive into the transition of 10G to 100G coherent solutions for aggregation networks. Samuel and Chris discuss the factors and trends driving the transition, the challenges faced by operators as they upgrade their fiber infrastructure and how Marvell is working with the ecosystem to enable the advancement of disaggregated optical architectures. Stay tuned to hear more on use cases and new applications for 100G coherent and how Marvell’s 7nm Deneb coherent DSP is driving the largest open CDSP ecosystem in the world.

Amer Haider, VP of Marvell’s Security Solutions Business Unit, and podcast host Chris Banuelos, cover the launch of Marvell’s enhanced Hardware Security Module – LiquidSecurity 2, the industry’s most advanced solution for performing key management, encryption, and authentication in the cloud for payment, privacy compliance, and other HSM services - powered by the company’s OCTEON® family of products. Join us and take a deep dive into the critical role HSMs play in virtually all credit card-based transactions, end markets, and where LS2 will have the largest impact, plus much more. Read the press release: https://bit.ly/3eOd9My

Jon Haswell, Senior Vice President, Firmware and Gary Kotzur, CTO, Storage Products Group join the Marvell Essential Technology Podcast to discuss the evolution of cloud storage and memory. As demands for workloads scale public and hybrid cloud environments face tremendous pressure to provide optimal performance while remaining cost-competitive. Designing the highest performing cloud storage and memory infrastructure for all workloads remains an expensive proposition at cloud scale, leading to underutilized resources. Optimizing NVMe and CXL-based silicon solutions from both a hardware and firmware perspective provides the key to success in driving the foundation for most of the scalable data center infrastructure. Learn more about some of the critical attributes of cloud storage, how the Compute Express Link (CXL) transformation is evolving, and the evolution of the cloud.