Marvell Technology and Lumentum announced on November 2, 2026 a definitive agreement for Marvell to acquire Lumentum in an all-stock transaction.
Lumentum stockholders will receive 4.500 Marvell shares for each Lumentum share. The companies put the implied enterprise value for Lumentum at $115 billion, about $1,132 per share. That is a premium of about 23.9% to the unaffected closing prices of October 28, the last trading day before market speculation began.
After closing, Marvell stockholders would own about 67% of the combined company and Lumentum stockholders about 33%. Matt Murphy stays chairman and CEO. Three Lumentum directors, including CEO Michael Hurlston, would join Marvell's board.
The rationale is the move from copper to optical connections inside AI infrastructure. Marvell brings electrical and optical interconnect, network switching and custom silicon. Lumentum brings high-performance lasers, optical transceivers, optical circuit switching and indium phosphide manufacturing.
The companies say the combination expands their addressable market to $550 billion, targets more than $1 billion in annual run-rate cost synergies and should add to Marvell's non-GAAP earnings per share in the first year after closing. These are company expectations, not results.
Closing is expected in the first half of calendar 2028. It needs approval from both sets of stockholders and from regulators.
Why this matters
At this scale, the limit in AI clusters is moving from compute to connectivity. The deal puts chips and the lasers that link them under one design team. The long timeline, with closing in 2028, leaves room for regulators and markets to change the outcome.
Sources: Marvell and Lumentum press release, Lumentum Form 8-K.
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