Semiconductor solutions provider Marvell Technology, Inc. has expanded its custom technology platform with the launch of the industry’s first 2nm custom Static Random Access Memory (SRAM). Accordingly, the new solution aims to boost the performance of custom XPUs and devices powering cloud data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) clusters.

Combining advanced custom circuitry and software from Marvell with core SRAM and cutting-edge 2nm process technology, Marvell’s custom SRAM delivers up to 6 gigabits of high-speed memory while significantly reducing memory power consumption and die area at comparable densities.

What is Custom SRAM?

Custom SRAM is the latest Marvell innovation designed to enhance memory hierarchy performance within accelerated infrastructure.

Delivering the highest bandwidth per square millimeter in the industry, Marvell custom SRAM enables chip designers to recover up to 15% of the total area of a 2nm design. Because of this, the recovered silicon can be leveraged to integrate more compute cores. At the same time, the new technology design also expands memory, shrink device size and cost, or meet specific performance power.

Marvell employed an innovative data path and architecture that enables the custom SRAM to consume up to 66 percent less power than standard on-chip SRAM at equivalent densities while operating at up to 3.75GHz.

“Custom is the future of AI infrastructure. The methodologies and technologies used by hyperscalers today to develop cutting-edge custom XPUs will percolate to more customers, more classes of devices, and more applications,” said Will Chu, senior vice president of Custom Cloud Solutions at Marvell. “We look forward to collaborating with our partners and customers creating the leading technology portfolio for the custom era.”

Marvell previously introduced its CXL technology for integration into custom silicon to add terabytes of memory and supplemental compute capacity to cloud servers and unveiled custom HBM technology that increases memory capacity by up to 33% while reducing the space and power required for dense high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stacks inside XPUs.

Custom Silicon Era

Custom SRAM is the latest extension of the Marvell custom technology platform for developing chips in a post-Moore’s Law world.

In recent years, chipmakers have been shrinking the size of transistors to advance semiconductor performance and power. However, the challenges of transistor scaling have been increasing dramatically.

For that reason, semiconductor companies and their customers are customizing silicon to better serve a customer’s unique infrastructure architecture. Therefore, experimenting with new chip and packaging breakthroughs, and rethinking assumptions about chip design to extend the boundaries of computing.

Marvell’s custom platform strategy seeks to deliver breakthrough results through unique semiconductor designs and innovative approaches. Specifically, the company combines its expertise in system and semiconductor design, advanced process manufacturing, and a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor platform solutions and IP.

24 June 2025