Marvell has reached a partnership with Google for custom AI chips, issuing $12.2 billion in warrants to Google

Marvell Technology submitted documents to the U.S. SEC disclosing that the company has expanded its custom semiconductor collaboration with Google. The two parties signed a commercial agreement on July 29, covering AI inference accelerators, storage controllers, network interface controllers, memory interface controllers, and near-memory computing products related to the Google TPU ecosystem.

As part of the collaboration, Marvell issued warrants to Google, allowing it to purchase up to approximately 58.97 million shares of the company's common stock at a price of $206.58 per share, with a total exercise value of about $12.2 billion. Approximately 1.36 million shares will vest over the first year, while the remaining shares will vest in batches based on Google's future revenue from custom product purchases (one batch for every $500 million in revenue), lasting until the fiscal year 2033, corresponding to a potential cumulative revenue cap of about $120 billion. Following the announcement, Marvell's stock price surged over 11%, while competitor Broadcom's stock price fell. Analysts believe this move strengthens Marvell's position in the custom chip sector for hyperscale cloud vendors.