{"id":983971,"date":"2026-01-08T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983971"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:10:21","slug":"marvell-to-buy-networking-equipment-firm-xconn-in-540-million-deal-amid-ai-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/marvell-to-buy-networking-equipment-firm-xconn-in-540-million-deal-amid-ai-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvell to buy networking equipment firm XConn in $540 million deal amid AI push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvell Technology said on Tuesday it will buy networking \u200dequipment provider XConn Technologies in a deal worth about $540 million, as the chipmaker \u2060doubles down on data center hardware amid a race to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>XConn&#8217;s acquisition will help the custom AI chipmaker expand its networking portfolio &#8211; \u200can essential \u200cfixture in AI data centers that helps connect different types of hardware across servers and \u200cis instrumental in determining the speed at which data can be processed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvell Technology said on Tuesday it will buy networking \u200dequipment provider XConn Technologies in a deal worth about $540 million, as the chipmaker \u2060doubles down on data center hardware amid a race to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure. XConn&#8217;s acquisition will help the custom AI chipmaker expand its networking portfolio &#8211; \u200can essential \u200cfixture in AI data centers that helps connect different types of hardware across servers and \u200cis instrumental in determining the speed at which data can be processed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}