Marvell agreed to buy Celestial AI for up to $5.5 billion
The December 2025 deal was a bet that moving data with light will matter as much as the chips that process it.
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$5.5Bmaximum price for Celestial AI
This is a look back at news from the week of . We wrote it on November 11, 2026, from the sources listed at the end.
Marvell, a chip company, agreed in early December 2025 to buy the startup Celestial AI for up to $5.5 billion. The final price depends on revenue milestones, CNBC reported, according to AI Weekly's summary.
Celestial AI works on optical connections, which move data between chips using light.
Why it mattered
AI data centers link thousands of processors, and the connections between them have become a limit on speed and power use. Light carries more data with less heat than copper.
The deal showed where chip companies thought the next constraint would be. It also fit the pattern of late 2025, when money flowed to every part of the AI supply chain.
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Sources
- Issue #457, AI Weekly, December 3, 2025
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