OCP Global Summit 2024: Marvell Delivers Custom Ethernet Network Interface Controller Solution

At OCP Global Summit 2024, Marvell Technology, Inc. announced the development of FBNIC, a custom 5nm NIC ASIC in collaboration with Meta Platforms, Inc. to meet the company’s infrastructure and use case requirements.

The FBNIC board design will also be contributed by Marvell to the Open Compute Project (OCP) community.

FBNIC combines a customized network controller designed by Marvell and Meta, a co-designed board, and Meta’s ASIC, firmware and software. This custom design delivers innovative capabilities, optimizes performance, increases efficiencies, and reduces the average time needed to resolve potential network and server issues.

“The future of large-scale, data center computing will increasingly revolve around optimizing semiconductors and other components for specific applications and cloud infrastructure architectures,” said Raghib Hussain, president, products and technologies, Marvell. “It’s been exciting to partner with Meta on developing their custom FBNIC on our industry-leading 5nm accelerated infrastructure silicon platform. We look forward to the OCP community leveraging the board design for future innovations.”

Key FBNIC features:

• Ethernet network interface support for 4x100GE, 2x100GE, 4x50GE, 2x50GE, 4x25GE and 2x25GE with SerDes support for up to 56G PAM4/lane.
• Multi-host PCIe interface supports 4 independent Gen5 x4 ports.
• Complete firmware control with access to all hardware internals enabling the ability to deliver innovative customized capabilities and reduce mean time to resolve potential issues.
• Compliant with OCP NIC 3.0, Version 1.2.0 Design Specification and will be released to the OCP community.