$NVDA has been quietly building the connective tissue of the entire AI economy through strategic capital allocation.
They invested $2B in $LITE for photonics.
$2B in $COHR for optical interconnect.
And $2B in $MRVL for custom XPUs and silicon photonics integration.
That's $6B of $NVDA capital deployed into the exact bottleneck layer of AI data centers.
Jensen is building a network of strategic partners who supply the parts of the AI infrastructure stack that $NVDA chooses not to build in-house.
Custom accelerators. Optical networking. Scale-up fabric. The physical layer that lets thousands of GPUs behave like one machine.
In our opinion, $MRVL sits at the most critical intersection of that strategy.
Their custom XPU business is projected to exceed $10B in annual revenue by fiscal 2029.
Their silicon photonics portfolio includes the Celestial AI partnership and the Polariton optical platform.
They make the data processing units that handle exactly the workloads $NVDA GPUs cannot handle alone.
And unlike $AVGO, which competes directly with $NVDA for ecosystem control, $MRVL positions itself as a collaborator rather than a rival...
I like it.