Marvell to Showcase PCIe 8.0 SerDes Demonstration at DesignCon 2026

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pcie 8.0 technical

PCIe 8.0 is the latest generation of the PCI Express standard, the high-speed electrical 'roadway' used to link core components like processors, graphics cards, storage drives and networking cards inside computers and servers. Higher bandwidth and lower delay mean devices can move much more data at once — like widening and speeding up a highway — which can boost performance for data-heavy applications and influence product competitiveness, upgrade cycles and capital spending decisions.

serdes technical

SerDes (short for serializer/deserializer) is an electronic function that converts parallel streams of data into a single fast serial stream and then converts it back, like packing many lanes of traffic into one high-speed highway and unpacking them at the other end. Investors care because SerDes chips and blocks determine how quickly and efficiently devices, data centers and networks can move information; improvements or bottlenecks affect product performance, production costs, and demand across the semiconductor and communications supply chain.

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Hyperscalers are large technology companies that operate massive computing networks and data centers to provide cloud services, data storage, and online infrastructure at an enormous scale. They are essential to the digital economy because they enable businesses and organizations to handle vast amounts of data and run complex applications efficiently. For investors, hyperscalers represent powerful engines of growth and innovation in the technology sector.

retimer technical

A retimer is a small electronic component that cleans up, re-times and boosts very fast digital signals traveling between chips or over cables so data arrives accurately over longer distances. Think of it as a relay that listens to a garbled message, restores its timing and clarity, and passes it on; for investors, retimers matter because they enable higher-performance products, support newer industry standards, and can drive demand, pricing power and supply-chain value for companies that design or sell them.

Marvell and Ecosystem Partners to Enable Hyperscalers to Make Transition to Next-generation, Standard-based, High-bandwidth Interconnect Technology

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate PCIe® 8.0 SerDes running at 256 gigatransfers-per-second (GT/s) data rate in the Marvell booth #904 at DesignCon 2026, February 24 to 26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

As AI workloads continue to drive a massive expansion in data center infrastructure requirements, PCIe technology continues to evolve to deliver higher bandwidth for in-chassis, in-rack and across-rack connectivity. Expected to be finalized by 2028, the PCIe 8.0 specification is expected to double the bandwidth of the PCIe 7.0 specification for up to 1 TB/s of bidirectional bandwidth, supporting demanding applications including AI, machine learning, high-speed networking and other data-intensive workloads.

In preparation for the PCIe 8.0 specification, hyperscalers and cloud data center operators can start pathfinding now, solidifying strategies to re-architect their infrastructure and take full advantage of the new specification when it is released. Providing an early demonstration of the PCIe 8.0 specification with the TE Connectivity AdrenaLINE Catapult connector at DesignCon 2026, Marvell is committed to helping the industry scale beyond traditional copper interconnects.

Enabling low power, low latency and low bit-error-rate transmission over copper and optical channels, the Marvell® Alaska® P PCIe 6.0 retimer and its PCIe 7.0 and PCIe 8.0 SerDes technology will deliver the scalability, power efficiency and high performance required for next-generation infrastructure to support tomorrow’s AI and data center bandwidth demand.

“Marvell continues to drive industry leadership in the critical connectivity technologies that power the most demanding AI workloads,” said Xi Wang, senior vice president and general manager, Connectivity Business Unit at Marvell. “We enable hyperscalers and cloud data center operators to optimize their AI architectures for maximum performance and scalability, and we will provide the technologies and support required to prepare the industry take full advantage of the benefits of the PCIe 8.0 specification when it is released.”

“As AI and other data-intensive workloads stretch the capabilities of the data center, the industry is continually looking for new ways to increase performance, scalability and power efficiency,” said Alan Weckel, co-founder and analyst of 650 Group. “With support for the PCIe 8.0 specification and other innovations, Marvell continues to push the envelope in delivering the technologies to fulfill the demands of AI hyperscalers and data center operators today and well into the future.”

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