GlobalFoundries and Marvell expanded a multiyear agreement to increase silicon germanium manufacturing capacity for optical connectivity in Burlington, Vermont.

GlobalFoundries and Marvell announced an expanded multiyear strategic agreement covering GlobalFoundries’ silicon germanium (SiGe) technology. The capacity increase is associated with GlobalFoundries’ facility in Burlington, Vermont.

The companies identify growing demand for next-generation optical connectivity in AI infrastructure as the reason for the expansion. This is a semiconductor-manufacturing capacity announcement supporting connectivity, rather than an announcement of additional GPUs, servers, or data-center power capacity.

The supplied excerpt does not quantify the capacity increase, capital investment, production schedule, or Marvell’s purchase commitments. It also provides no optical-link speed, power-consumption figure, or performance benchmark for the resulting products.