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Marvell Technology, Inc.CIK 0001835632 · Semiconductors
Marvell Technology, Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries (“Marvell,” “MTI,” the “Company,” “we,” or “us”) is a leading supplier of data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, spanning the data center core to network edge. We are a fabless supplier of high-performance semiconductor… About this business →
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About Marvell Technology, Inc.
Source: Item 1 (Business) from the 10-K filed March 11, 2026. Description as filed by the company with the SEC.
Item 1. Business
Our Company
Marvell Technology, Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries (“Marvell,” “MTI,” the “Company,” “we,” or “us”) is a leading supplier of data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, spanning the data center core to network edge. We are a fabless supplier of high-performance semiconductor products with core strengths in developing and scaling complex System-on-a-Chip architectures, integrating analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing functionality. Leveraging leading intellectual property and deep system-level expertise, as well as highly innovative security firmware, our solutions are empowering the data economy and enabling the data center and communications and other end markets.
We currently are incorporated in Delaware, United States. Our corporate headquarters is 1000 N. West Street, Suite 1200 Wilmington, Delaware 19801, and our telephone number is (302) 295-4840. We also have operations in many countries, including Argentina, China, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. Our fiscal year ends on the Saturday nearest January 31.
Recent Developments
On August 14, 2025, we completed the sale of our automotive ethernet business to Infineon Technologies AG for $2.5 billion in cash. In connection with the transaction, during the third quarter of fiscal 2026, we recorded a pre-tax gain on sale of $1.8 billion.
Subsequent to our fiscal 2026 year end, on February 2, 2026, we completed the previously announced acquisition of Celestial AI, Inc. (“Celestial”), a provider of a Photonic FabricTM technology platform purpose-built for next-generation scale-up interconnect. The acquisition of Celestial is expected to accelerate our connectivity strategy for next-generation AI and cloud data centers. At acquisition close, we paid approximately $1.3 billion in cash (or $1.0 billion, net of cash acquired of approximately $300.0 million) and issued approximately 24.5 million shares of our common stock. Contingent on the achievement of specified revenue milestones, we may be required to pay additional cash and issue additional shares of our common stock through fiscal 2029.
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Subsequent to our fiscal 2026 year end, on February 10, 2026, we completed the previously announced acquisition of XConn Technologies Holdings, Ltd. (“XConn”), a provider of advanced PCIe and CXL switching silicon, which expands our switching portfolio and augments our Ultra Accelerator LinkTM (“UALinkTM”) scale-up switch team. At acquisition close, we paid approximately $280.0 million in cash and issued approximately 2.1 million shares of our common stock.
Available Information
Our website address is www.marvell.com. The information contained on any website referred to in this Form 10-K does not form any part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and is not incorporated by reference herein unless expressly noted. We make available free of charge through our website our annual reports on Form 10-K, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, our current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file these materials with, or furnish them to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). In addition, the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov, contains reports, proxy statements, and other information that we file electronically with the SEC.
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Our Markets and Products
Our product solutions serve two end markets: (i) data center and (ii) communications and other. These markets and their corresponding customer products and applications are noted in the table below:
End market
Customer products and applications
Data center
•Cloud and on-premise Artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems
•Cloud and on-premise ethernet switching
•Cloud and on-premise network-attached storage (“NAS”)
•Cloud and on-premise AI servers
•Cloud and on-premise general-purpose servers
•Cloud and on-premise storage area networks
•Cloud and on-premise storage systems
•Data center interconnect (“DCI”)
Communications and other
Enterprise networking
•Campus and small medium enterprise routers
•Campus and small medium enterprise ethernet switches
•Campus and small medium enterprise wireless access points (“WAPs”)
•Network appliances (firewalls, and load balancers)
•Workstations
Carrier infrastructure
•Broadband access systems
•Ethernet switches
•Optical transport systems
•Routers
•Wireless radio access network (“RAN”) systems
Consumer
•Broadband gateways and routers
•Gaming consoles
•Home data storage
•Home wireless access points (“WAPs”)
•Personal Computers (“PCs”)
•Printers
•Set-top boxes
Automotive/industrial
•Advanced driver-assistance systems (“ADAS”)*
•Autonomous vehicles (“AV”)*
•In-vehicle networking*
•Industrial ethernet switches
•United States military and government solutions
•Video surveillance
* These customer products and applications were divested as part of the automotive ethernet business sale on August 14, 2025.
Beginning in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, we consolidated revenue previously reported separately as enterprise networking, carrier infrastructure, consumer and automotive/industrial end markets into a new communications and other end market, as shown below. The composition of our data center end market remains unchanged.
We categorize revenue from our two end markets by using a number of data points, including the type of customer purchasing the product, the function of our product being sold, and our knowledge of the end customer product or application into which our product will be incorporated. The categorization of products by end market is inherently subjective and can vary over time as a result of, for example, our knowledge of the ways in which our customers utilize our products.
We serve these two end markets with a broad portfolio of semiconductor solutions based on our compute, networking, security, interconnects, and storage technologies, which are essential and differentiating for these markets.
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The following table summarizes net revenue disaggregated by end market (in millions, except percentages):
Year Ended
January 31,
2026% of TotalFebruary 1,
2025% of TotalFebruary 3,
2024% of Total
Data center$6,100.3 74 %$4,164.2 72 %$2,216.7 40 %
Communications and other2,094.3 26 %1,603.1 28 %3,291.0 60 %
Total$8,194.6 $5,767.3 $5,507.7
Our portfolio of solutions integrate multiple analog, mixed-signal and digital intellectual property components incorporating hardware, firmware and software technologies and our system knowledge to provide our customers highly integrated solutions for their end products. In addition to selling standard product solutions, where the exact same product is sold to multiple customers, we also offer optimized solutions which are customized to a specific customer’s requirements. The demand for optimized solutions has been increasing as our customers seek greater customization and differentiation for their products and services.
Our current product offerings include custom Application Specific Integrated Circuits (“ASICs”), interconnects, ethernet solutions, fibre channel adapters, processors and storage controllers. In addition, we are developing Ultra Accelerator LinkTM (“UALinkTM”) switches and Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (“ESUN”) switches for the emerging scale-out AI market. The acquisition of Celestial further extends our interconnect portfolio with the addition of their Photonic FabricTM solutions and XConn further extends our switch portfolio with the addition of their peripheral component interconnect express (“PCIe”) and compute express link (“CXL") switches.
Custom ASICs
We develop custom semiconductor solutions tailored to individual customer specifications that deliver system-level differentiation for next-generation artificial intelligence, data center, compute, networking, carrier, storage, aerospace and defense applications. These custom offerings are built on our proven ASIC platform which leverages a broad suite of differentiated Marvell intellectual property including ultra-high-speed SerDes, ARM compute, security, storage, silicon photonics and advanced packaging, including die to die interconnects, chiplets, co-packaged optics (“CPO”) and custom high-bandwidth memory (“HBM”). We have successfully executed multiple 5 nanometer (“nm”) designs in the last few years, and are progressing through 3nm designs now and developing our advanced 2nm generation platform.
Interconnects
We offer a complete portfolio of high-speed interconnect semiconductor solutions for inside cloud data centers, between cloud data centers and in carrier networks. Our interconnect products include PAM (pulse amplitude modulation), coherent and coherent-lite DSPs (digital signal processors), laser drivers, TIAs (trans-impedance amplifiers), silicon photonics, CPO (co-packaged optics), LPO (linear pluggable optics) chipsets, DCI (data center interconnect), AEC (active electrical cable) DSPs and PCIe retimer solutions.
Our low-power and low-latency PAM and coherent-lite optical DSPs implement equalization, estimation, clock recovery, carrier recovery, forward error correction, and coded modulation to enable ultra-fast data transmission speeds. In combination with our drivers, TIAs and silicon photonics, our suite of optical DSPs products perform a wide range of functions such as amplifying, encoding, multiplexing, demultiplexing, and retiming signals. The PAM DSPs are key enablers for inter-connecting servers, routers, switches, storage and other infrastructure equipment that process, store and transport data traffic inside data centers. The coherent lite DSPs address the emerging market for distributed campus data center interconnects spanning up to 20 km with high bandwidth and low latency as the industry shifts from large-scale facilities to campus-based data centers due to power and space constraints.
Our coherent TIAs, drivers and DSPs enable optical data transmission over distances of 100s to 1000s of kilometers in telecom carrier networks. Our PAM DSPs along with our accompanying TIAs and drivers deliver low-power and cost-effective solutions for optical connectivity inside cloud data centers. Our data center interconnect solutions enable pluggable transceiver technology to directly interconnect regional cloud data centers, at lower cost, complexity and power compared to traditional optical transport solutions.
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Our CPO solutions leverage advanced silicon photonics technology, integrating hundreds of components such as waveguides, modulators, photodetectors, modulator drivers, trans-impedance amplifiers, microcontrollers, and various passive components into a single, unified device. This integration enhances performance, bandwidth, and energy efficiency for optical connectivity. Our CPO solutions are designed for next-generation data center compute and connectivity applications, enabling high-bandwidth, low-latency connections. Additionally, our LPO chipsets, comprising of optimized TIAs and laser drivers, address next-generation short-reach, compute fabric connectivity requirements inside AI data centers for connections that have a predictable and controlled channel. LPO modules enabled by our chipsets provide higher bandwidth and greater reach than copper cable interconnects, with optimal latency and power consumption.
Our AEC DSPs are utilized in active electrical cables to enable high-bandwidth copper data transmission within data centers, specifically for scale-up and scale-out AI and general-purpose server connectivity. AECs address the issue of signal degradation in high-speed copper connections by implementing advanced signal processing techniques such as equalization, clock recovery, forward error correction, and coded modulation. We partner with industry-leading cable manufacturers to deliver optimized, tailor-made AECs that meet the unique requirements of each of our hyperscale data center customers.
Our PCIe retimers leverage our industry-leading PAM technology to enable high-bandwidth copper and optical PCIe data transmission within server systems, connecting AI accelerators, GPUs, CPUs, and other server components. These retimers address signal degradation by regenerating the signal, ensuring reliable communication over the physical distances required for connections between GPUs and CPUs within an AI server, between GPUs on different boards, or between CPUs and a pool of shared memory enabled by CXL, among other use cases.
We have added Photonic FabricTM solutions from the acquisition of Celestial AI. Our solutions are purpose-built for scale-out networking enabling large AI clusters to scale both within and across racks using a high-bandwidth, low latency, low power and cost-effective optical fabric. In addition to exceptionally low power consumption, our solutions provide nano-second-class latency and excellent thermal stability which enable deeper levels of optical interconnectivity into merchant and custom GPUs, CPUs, and switch systems. Our first-generation product is a Photonic FabricTM chiplet, which integrates all the required electrical and optical components, including drivers, TIAs, equalizers, SerDes, microcontrollers, modulators, photodiodes, and waveguides, into a compact form factor.
Ethernet Solutions
We offer a broad portfolio of Ethernet solutions spanning controllers, network adapters, physical transceivers and switches. Our Ethernet solutions address a wide variety of end-customer data infrastructure products from small, high-reliability sub-systems to large, high-performance modular enterprise and data center solutions.
Our Prestera and Teralynx® Ethernet switches integrate market-optimized innovative features, such as advanced tunneling and routing, high throughput forwarding, and packet processing that make networks more effective at delivering content with low latency and high reliability. Our comprehensive Ethernet switch portfolio addresses enterprise campus, enterprise data center, industrial, carrier, cloud and AI system applications. The feature-rich Prestera® switch portfolio includes silicon optimized for each market and use case, with capacities ranging from 12Gbps to 12.8Tbps. The high-bandwidth Teralynx switch portfolio is optimized for cloud data centers, with capacities up to 51.2Tbps, and beyond.
We complement our Ethernet switches and infrastructure processors with a broad selection of Alaska Ethernet physical-layer transceivers for both optical and copper interconnects with advanced power management, link security, and time synchronization features. Our Ethernet physical-layer transceiver portfolio addresses all the critical speeds ranging from 10Mbps to 1.6Tbps including the emerging Multi-Gigabit (“M-Gig”) speeds. Our M-Gig products offer increased data rates over existing cabling infrastructure, supporting data rates beyond 1Gbps and up to 10Gbps.
Our Ethernet controllers and network adapters are optimized to accelerate and simplify data center and enterprise networking. Our family of products provide exceptional value features and performance enabling the most agile and data-intensive applications. They deliver Ethernet connectivity for enterprise-class workstations all the way up to enterprise and cloud data centers.
Scale-Up Switches
To address increased performance and fabric-scaling demands of AI datacenter scale-up networking, we are committed to develop new classes of UALinkTM and ESUN switch fabrics, which leverage our high-bandwidth Teralynx switch architecture and advanced 224G SerDes technology. These classes of scale-up switches are architected to provide extreme bandwidth, low power, ultra-low latency and high radix port counts, enabling both CPC and CPO inter and intra rack connectivity needed for next generation, compute intensive AI centric fabric architecture.
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PCIe and CXL Switches
With the acquisition of XConn, we have expanded our portfolio to include a complete suite of PCIe and CXL connectivity solutions, spanning both re-timers and high-performance switches. While PCIe switching has long been foundational to traditional computing architectures, it is now evolving into a critical enabler for multi-host connectivity, composable infrastructure, and rack-scale accelerator expansion. In parallel, CXL has become essential for memory pooling, coherency, and disaggregation, addressing the substantial memory bandwidth and capacity demands of large-scale AI models. Our high radix PCIe and CXL switches, derived from XConn’s advanced fabric architecture, are built on an ultra-latency fabric architecture that supports both multi-level switching and flexible fabric topology (mesh, dragonfly, 3D torus) enabling cache-coherent connectivity extended across racks.
Fibre Channel Products
Our QLogic Fibre Channel product family comprises of host bus adapters (“HBAs”) and controllers for server and storage system connectivity. These products accelerate enterprise and data center applications, deliver a highly resilient infrastructure, enable greater server virtualization density along with an advanced set of data center diagnostic, orchestration and quality of service capabilities to optimize information technology (“IT”) productivity. Our latest Fibre Channel products are well-suited for use with all-flash arrays by offering best-in-class latency and performance.
Processors
We offer highly integrated semiconductors that provide single or multiple core processors, along with intelligent Layer 2 through 7 processing of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) stack which is the framework that governs network communications within enterprise, data center, storage, and carrier markets. All of our products are compatible with standards-based operating systems and general-purpose software to enable ease of programming, and are supported by our ecosystem partners.
Our OCTEON data processor units (“DPUs”) and multi-core infrastructure processor families provide integrated Layer 4 through 7 data and security processing with additional capabilities at Layers 2 and 3 at line speeds. These software-compatible processors integrate next-generation networking I/Os along with advanced security, storage, and application hardware accelerators, offering programmability for the Layer 2 through Layer 7 processing requirements of intelligent networks. The OCTEON DPUs and processors are targeted for use in a wide variety of carrier, data center, and enterprise equipment, including routers, switches, security UTM appliances, content-aware switches, application-aware gateways, wireless access points, 3G/4G/5G wireless base stations, storage arrays, smart network interface controllers, network functions virtualization (“NFV”) and software-defined networking (“SDN”) infrastructure.
Our OCTEON Fusion family of wireless baseband infrastructure processors is a highly scalable product family supporting enterprise small cells, high capacity outdoor picocells and microcells all the way up to multi-sector macrocells for multiple wireless protocols including 5G. The key features include highly optimized processor cores, a highly efficient caching subsystem, high memory bandwidth digital signal processing engines along with a host of hardware accelerators. Additionally, multiple OCTEON Fusion chips can be cascaded for even denser deployments or higher order multiple-input and multiple-output, or MIMO. Our OCTEON Fusion processors have also been designed into 5G base station radio units to help enable Massive MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) antenna and advanced Beamforming implementations.
Our NITROX security processor family provides the functionality required for Layer 3 to Layer 5 secure communication in a single chip. These single chip, custom-designed processors provide security protocol processing, encryption, authentication and compression algorithms to reduce the load on the system processor and increase total system throughput. The LiquidSecurity product family is a high-performance hardware-based transaction security solution for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It addresses the high-performance security requirements for private key management and administration. This family is available as an adapter with complete software or as a standalone appliance.
Our LiquidIO Server Adapter family is a high-performance, general-purpose programmable adapter platform that enables cloud data centers and enterprises to offload their server processors for higher performance and power efficiencies. The LiquidIO Server Adapter family is supported by a feature rich software development kit that allows customers and partners to develop high-performance SDN (software defined networking) applications with packet processing, switching, security, tunneling, quality of service, and metering.
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Storage Controllers
We offer a broad portfolio of storage controllers for hard disk drives (“HDDs”) and solid-state-drives (“SSDs”) across all high-volume markets. Our Bravera controllers integrate several key Marvell technologies spanning compute, networking, security and storage. These key technologies enable our controllers to be optimized performance-power solutions and to help our customers’ high-efficient storage products. Our Bravera HDD controllers integrate Marvell’s industry-leading read channel technologies to enable higher volumetric densities at low power profiles and are being used by all the current HDD makers. Our technology density and power differentiators are critical for addressing the fast-growing high-capacity, nearline HDD data center and enterprise markets. To further enhance our Bravera HDD controller differentiation and value propositions, we offer customers preamplifier products as part of a chipset with our HDD controllers, seeking to increase our customers’ product efficiencies. Our Bravera HDD controllers support all the high-volume host system interfaces, including Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (“SATA”) and Serial Attached SCSI (“SAS”), which are critical for the data center and enterprise markets.
Our Bravera SSD controller products leverage our strong HDD controller know-how and system-level expertise. We integrate several of our Bravera HDD controller IPs with our flash technologies to deliver optimal solutions for data center, enterprise and client computing markets. Our Bravera SSD controller products integrate hardware and firmware components to help accelerate our customers’ time to market and maximize the capabilities of our solutions. Like our HDD controllers, our SSD controllers support all the high-volume SSD host system interfaces, including SAS, SATA, PCIe, non-volatile memory express (“NVMe”) and NVMe over Fabrics (“NVMe-oF”).
Our new controller chipset products enable innovative flash-based storage architectures in data centers and enterprises. These solutions increase overall data center performance, density and scalability while lowering overall power, resulting in lower total cost of ownership for the infrastructure organizations.
Financial Information about Segments and Geographic Areas
We have determined that we operate in one reportable segment: the design, development and sale of integrated circuits. For information regarding our revenue by geographic area, and property and equipment by geographic area, please see “Note 14 – Segment and Geographic Information” in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements set forth in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. See “Risk Factors” under Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of the risks associated with our international operations.
Customers, Sales and Marketing
Our target customers are original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) and original design manufacturers, both of which design and manufacture end market devices, and distributors for these products. We seek to strategically align our sales force along key customer lines in order to offer fully integrated platforms to our customers. In this way, we believe we can more effectively offer a broader set of content into our key customers’ end products, without having multiple product groups separately engage the same customer. We seek to complement and support our direct sales force with manufacturers’ representatives for our products in North America. In addition, we have contracted with distributors who support our sales and marketing activities in the United States, Europe and Asia. We also use third-party logistics providers who maintain warehouses in close proximity to our customers’ facilities. We expect that a significant percentage of our sales will continue to come from direct sales to key customers.
We use field application engineers to provide technical support and assistance to existing and potential customers in designing, testing and qualifying systems designs that incorporate our products. Our marketing team works in conjunction with our field sales and application engineering force, and is organized around our product groups.
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Net revenue attributable to significant customers including both distributor and direct customers whose revenues represented 10% or more of total net revenue is presented in the following table:
Year Ended
January 31,
2026February 1,
2025February 3,
2024
Direct Customer:
Customer A14%13%*
Distributor:
Distributor A37%34%24%
*Less than 10% of net revenue.
We continue to monitor the creditworthiness of our distributor and direct customers, and believe these distributors’ sales to diverse end customers and geographies further serve to mitigate our exposure to credit risk.
Inventory and Working Capital
We typically place firm orders with our suppliers up to 26 weeks prior to the anticipated delivery to our customer and may make further supply commitments up to 52 weeks to secure capacity. Occasionally, orders may be placed in advance of receiving a binding order from our customers. To secure capacity over the long term, we have entered into and expect to continue to enter into capacity reservation arrangements with certain foundries and substrate partners. We often maintain substantial inventories to meet short lead time orders for multi-year product runs.
Research and Development
We believe that our future success depends on our ability to introduce improvements to our existing products and to develop new products that deliver cost-effective solutions for both existing and new markets. Our research and development efforts are directed to the development of high-performance analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing and accelerated compute circuits based on known microprocessor architectures with highest performance and lowest power consumption. We devote a sizable portion of our resources to expanding our product portfolio based on a broad intellectual property portfolio with designs that are intended to enable high-performance, reliable communications over a variety of physical transmission media including silicon photonics and opto-electronics. We are focused on incorporating functions currently provided by stand-alone integrated circuits into our integrated platform solutions to reduce our customers’ overall system costs. Our portfolio of products is based on foundational intellectual property on leading edge Advanced CMOS processes in 5nm, 3nm, 2nm and 1.4nm (A14 node). We are developing advanced products at 2nm, 1.4nm, and smaller geometries featuring gate-all-around transistor design and will leverage innovations in the areas of back side power delivery in 1.4nm. Advanced packaging technologies are also critical for reducing and optimizing overall system costs. Advanced packaging techniques like Chip on Wafer on Substrate (“CoWoS”), Integrated fanout (“InFo”), Embedded Interconnect Bridge (“EMIB”) along with advanced substrates, thermal solutions enable large 2.5D/3D/3.5D interposers for complex accelerated compute ASICs.
We have assembled a core team of engineers who have experience in the areas of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (“CMOS”) technology, digital signal processing, electro-optics, embedded microprocessors, mixed-signal circuit design, silicon photonics, and system-level architectures. We have invested and expect to continue to invest a significant amount in research and development. See our discussion of research and development expenses in Part II, Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
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Manufacturing
Integrated Circuit Fabrication
The vast majority of our integrated circuits are fabricated using available CMOS processes, which is intended to provide greater flexibility to engage independent foundries to manufacture integrated circuits at lower costs. By outsourcing manufacturing, we are able to avoid the cost associated with owning and operating our own manufacturing facilities. This is intended to allow us to focus our efforts on the design and marketing of our products. We seek to work closely with our foundry partners to forecast on a monthly basis our manufacturing capacity requirements. We also seek to closely monitor foundry production to help ensure consistent overall quality, reliability and yield levels. Our integrated circuits are currently fabricated in several advanced manufacturing processes. Because more precise manufacturing processes are expected to lead to enhanced performance, smaller silicon chip size and lower power requirements, we continually seek to evaluate the benefits and feasibility of migrating to smaller geometry process technology in order to reduce cost and improve performance.
Assembly and Test
We typically outsource all product packaging and testing requirements for our products in production to several assembly and test subcontractors primarily located in Taiwan, Canada, Korea, Singapore and China. The subcontractor location varies as we are party to several contracts with the U.S. government, federal prime contractors, and federal subcontractors that prohibit or otherwise restrict production, assembly and testing in foreign countries or by certain foreign entities.
Governmental Regulations
Import/Export, National Security and Other Regulations Related to International Operations and Ownership
We are subject to laws and regulations worldwide, which may differ among jurisdictions, affecting our operations in areas including, but not limited to: intellectual property ownership and infringement; tax; import and export requirements; anti-corruption; foreign exchange controls and cash repatriation restrictions; conflict minerals; data privacy requirements; competition; advertising; employment; product regulations; environment, health and safety requirements; and consumer laws. For example, government export regulations apply to the encryption or other features contained in some of our products.
A portion of the business we acquired in our Avera acquisition in fiscal 2021 requires facility security clearances under the National Industrial Security Program. The National Industrial Security Program requires that a corporation maintaining a facility security clearance be effectively insulated from foreign ownership, control or influence (“FOCI”). Because we were organized in Bermuda at the time of the Avera acquisition, we entered into agreements with the U.S. Department of Defense with respect to FOCI mitigation arrangements that relate to our operation of the portion of the Avera business involving facility clearances. After our domestication, we requested and have now received partial release from some of these obligations. The remaining measures and arrangements may materially and adversely affect our operating results due to the increased cost of compliance with these measures. If we fail to comply with our obligations under these agreements, our ability to operate our business may be adversely affected.
Primarily as a result of our acquisition of Avera, we are now a party to certain contracts with the U.S. government, federal prime contractors and federal subcontractors. Our contracts with these government entities are subject to various procurement regulations and other requirements relating to their formation, administration and performance. These regulations and requirements include supply chain restrictions that may prohibit the sourcing of materials, supplies, or services from foreign entities including those located in or organized in China.
See “Risk Factors” under Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information on regulatory matters.
Environmental Management
We are also subject to environmental rules and regulations in multiple jurisdictions, such as the European Union (“EU”) Directive on Restriction of Hazardous Substances (“RoHS”), the EU Regulation, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals SVHC Substances Directive, the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (“WEEE Directive”), China’s regulation on Management Methods for Controlling Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products, and California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.
We believe that our products comply with the current Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive, the European legislation that restricts the use of a number of substances, including lead, and the Regulation, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals SVHC Substances Directive. In addition, each of our manufacturing subcontractors certifies to us compliance with ISO 14001:2015, the international standard related to environmental management.
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Intellectual Property
Our future revenue growth and overall success depend in large part on our ability to protect our intellectual property (“IP”). We rely on a combination of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, contractual provisions, confidentiality agreements and licenses to protect our intellectual property. As of January 31, 2026, we have over 10,000 issued patents and pending patent applications in the United States and other countries, covering various aspects of our technology. The expiration of our patents ranges from 2026 to 2046, and none of the patents expiring in the near future are expected to be material to our IP portfolio as we are not substantially dependent on any single patent or group of related patents. While we believe the duration of our patents generally covers the expected lives of our products, our patents may not collectively or individually cover every feature on innovation in our product. In addition, our efforts may not be sufficient to protect our intellectual property from misappropriation or infringement. See “Risk Factors” under Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of the risks associated with our intellectual property.
We have expended and expect to continue to expend considerable resources in establishing a patent position designed to protect our intellectual property. While our ability to compete is enhanced by our ability to protect our intellectual property, we believe that in view of the rapid pace of technological change, the combination of the technical experience and innovative skills of our employees may be as important to our business as the legal protection of our patents and other proprietary information.
From time to time, we may desire or be required to renew or to obtain licenses from third parties in order to further develop and effectively market commercially viable products or in connection with a pending or future claim or action asserted against us. We cannot be sure that any necessary licenses will be available or will be available on commercially reasonable terms.
The integrated circuit industry is characterized by vigorous pursuit and protection of intellectual property rights, which has resulted in significant and often time consuming and expensive litigation. From time to time, we receive, and may continue to receive in the future, notices that claim we have infringed upon, misappropriated or misused the proprietary rights of other parties.
In addition, we have in the past and may in the future be sued by other parties who claim that we have infringed their patents or misappropriated or misused other intellectual property rights, or who may seek to invalidate one or more of our patents, trademarks, or other rights. Although we defend these claims vigorously, it is possible that we will not prevail in pending or future lawsuits. See “Risk Factors” under Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and “Note 8 – Commitments and Contingencies” in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements set forth in Part II, Item 8, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion of the risks associated with patent litigation matters.
Competition
The markets for our products are intensely competitive, and are characterized by rapid technological change, evolving industry standards, frequent new product introductions and pricing pressures. Competition has intensified as a result of the increasing demand for higher levels of performance, integration and smaller process geometries. We expect competition to further intensify as current competitors strengthen the depth and breadth of their product offerings, either through in-house development or by acquiring existing technology. In addition, some of our customers have chosen to develop certain semiconductor products internally and this trend may continue to proliferate. We believe that our ability to compete successfully in the rapidly evolving markets for our products depends on multiple factors, including, but not limited to:
•the performance, features, quality and price of our products;
•the development execution, timing and success of enhanced and new product introductions by us, our customers and our competitors;
•the emergence, rate of adoption and acceptance of new industry standards;
•market demand trends;
•competitive tactics;
•our ability to obtain adequate foundry capacity with the appropriate technological capability; and
•the number and nature of our competitors in a given market.
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Companies that compete directly with our businesses include, but are not limited to, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (“AMD”), Alchip Technologies (“Alchip”), Astera Labs, Inc., Ayar Labs, Inc. (“Ayar Labs”), Broadcom Inc. (“Broadcom”), Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”), Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd, Intel Corporation, Global Unichip Corporation (“GUC”), Lightmatter, Inc. (“Lightmatter”), MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc., MediaTek Inc., Microchip Technology Inc., Montage Technology, Nvidia Corporation, NXP Semiconductors N.V., Phison Electronics Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated (“Qualcomm”), Rambus, Inc., Ranovus Inc. (“Ranovus”), Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Semtech Corporation, Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, and Socionext Inc. We expect increased competition in the future from both emerging and established companies, as well as from alliances among competitors, customers or other third parties, any of which could acquire significant market share. See “Risk Factors” under Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of competitive risks associated with our business.
We expect that the average unit selling prices of our products will continue to be subject to significant pricing pressures. In order to offset expected declines in the selling prices of our products, we will need to continue to introduce innovative new products and attempt to reduce the cost to design and manufacture our products. To accomplish this, we intend to continue to implement design changes that lower the cost of manufacturing, assembly and testing of our products. See “Risk Factors” under Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of pricing risks.
Sustainability
By integrating environmental and social considerations into our operations, supply chain and product design, we aim to deliver innovative semiconductor solutions that reduce impacts throughout our full value chain and meet customer expectations. Our sustainability initiatives are a corporate priority and supported by our Board of Directors and leadership team. The following sections provide an overview of Human Capital and Climate Change management. More information can be found on the Sustainability section of our website and in our annual Sustainability Report. Information contained on our website or in our annual Sustainability Report is not incorporated by reference into this or any other report we file with the SEC. See “Risk Factors” under Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of risks and uncertainties we face related to sustainability.
Human Capital
We believe that engaged and supported employees lead to innovation and collaboration, enabling our company to maintain a leadership position in our industry. Our ability to attract and retain the best talent from diverse backgrounds and establish a culture that embraces integrity, respect and inclusion is key to our goal to be a great place of work. We work hard to provide opportunities to learn and grow, and create an environment where our employees feel motivated, appreciated and engaged, and have a pathway to building a long-term career at Marvell.
Our Board of Directors (the “Board”) and its committees share oversight of our human capital management and talent strategy. The Executive Compensation Committee provides oversight of our human capital, including compensation philosophy, policies and programs. The Nominating and Governance Committee has general oversight of the Company’s approach to sustainability as it relates to human capital. The Audit Committee has oversight of business risks and ethics and compliance programs, which are connected to human capital and workplace issues. Marvell annually conducts talent reviews and succession planning and the Board receives updates regularly from senior management on succession planning, management talent assessment, attrition and employee survey results. Our executive management team also reviews our human capital initiatives and our progress on such initiatives.
The Company employed 7,480 people as of January 31, 2026. Our employees are located across three geographical regions: 49% of employees are based in the Americas, 42% are in APAC (which includes India) and 9% are in EMEA.
Our Core Behaviors lay the foundation of our culture and are centered around four key aspects:
•Act with integrity and treat everyone with respect,
•Innovate to solve customer needs,
•Execute with thoroughness and rigor, and
•Help others achieve their objectives.
Our efforts to attract, develop, engage and retain employees, as well as our efforts to embed inclusion across the Company, reinforce these behaviors. Our Core Behaviors also serve as a roadmap to help integrate employees as we grow through hiring and acquisitions.
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Attracting and Retaining the Best Talent
To enable the cutting-edge advances our sector requires, we have a range of programs to attract and retain the best talent. We invest in programs and partnerships that enable a strong pipeline of early career professionals. Our annual internship program has been a strong source of talent for our company. We also attract a diverse workforce through our university recruiting program, which helps us hire students across all degree levels from a number of universities around the world. This strategy helps provide us with a diversity of knowledge and thought to add to our culture of innovation.
We are actively focused on retaining our people through our rewards, benefits, employee engagement and development programs, as well as by fostering an inclusive culture and focusing on employee wellness and safety.
Our efforts at retention also include measuring and evaluating employee turnover rates. Our global voluntary turnover rate for fiscal 2026 was approximately 7%.
Growing and Developing Our People
We understand that employees are more likely to stay at companies that offer opportunities for growth and development. As a result, we offer extensive training, mentorship and mobility opportunities, no matter the path that employees wish to take. The majority of our employees are engineers and technical professionals, and we offer customized programs to this group of employees.
Inclusion
We strive to build a workplace where every individual feels valued, authentically themselves and empowered to contribute their unique insights and talents. Together, we create a thriving environment of belonging that drives innovation, collaboration and excellence.
Building a Great Place to Work
When employees are healthy and supported, they thrive and are ready to do their best work. We believe we can help by providing competitive benefits to sustain overall wellness. We are committed to providing safe and healthy workplaces for our employees, contractors and visitors, through a risk-based approach to identifying and addressing health and safety hazards.
Fostering Organizational and Team Health
We seek to listen to and engage with employees globally, because it offers us a chance to identify opportunities to enhance our culture. We measure levels of engagement through our annual Voice of the Employee Survey, and we use the results to understand employee needs and areas for improvement.
Climate Change
Addressing climate change-related issues is an important priority for Marvell and our stakeholders, in particular our customers.
Management is responsible for formulating and executing our climate strategy. Marvell also runs an executive-level Sustainability Committee to provide senior leadership and strategic guidance on sustainability, as well as Sustainability Working Groups who are responsible for gathering data, setting strategy and goals, and supporting disclosure efforts on material sustainability topics. Our President and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) is the executive sponsor of the Thriving Organization – Environment Working Group and has overall responsibility at the executive level for climate strategy across our facilities globally. The COO is responsible for assessing and leading the management of climate-related risks and opportunities, elevating stakeholder concerns and guiding the implementation of climate-related policies, programs and disclosures. The COO is also a member of the Sustainability Committee. The COO works closely with the Chief Legal Officer, who raises issues to the Board as part of its sustainability updates, both in the Nominating and Governance Committee’s quarterly updates and in the annual update to the Board of Directors.
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The majority of our GHG emissions are associated with the use phase of our products and generated from the energy consumed by data infrastructure systems deploying Marvell chips. With the expansion of AI systems and infrastructure and their rising energy demands, we can utilize our R&D and expertise in design and product innovation to offer our customers advanced, energy-efficient semiconductor solutions that deliver higher performance. Our focus on power efficiency of our products is both an environmental imperative and a key competitive advantage, as energy costs represent a substantial expense for our customers. We are also working collaboratively with our suppliers around greenhouse gas emission reduction to build climate resilience and to drive decarbonization at a value chain level, impacting the emissions of both our suppliers and customers.
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