New Delhi, March 31 -- Jensen Huang-led Nvidia, on Tuesday (local time), announced that it has invested $2 billion in a "strategic partnership" with Marvell Technology, adding that the two chipmakers now plan to partner on silicon photonics technology.

According to a press release, the collaboration between the two chipmakers will connect Marvell to Nvidia's artificial intelligence (AI) factory and AI-RAN ecosystem via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, giving customers building on Nvidia architectures greater flexibility and choice in designing next-generation systems.

Huang, in a statement, said, "Together with Marvell, we are enabling customers to leverage NVIDIA's AI infrastructure ecosystem and scale to build specialized AI compute."

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