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Marvell has made one side of its AI-capacity wager much harder than the other. In thirteen weeks, unconditional purchase commitments to foundries and test-and-assembly partners rose from US$2.7568 billion to US$8.5189 billion. The new schedule reaches deep into fiscal 2030. Yet Marvell still says a significant portion of customer sales is made through purchase orders that can be cancelled, changed or deferred on short notice. Supply has acquired a multi-year contractual floor; the public demand record has not acquired an equivalent binding ledger.

NVIDIA's US$2 billion Marvell security had not converted by 1 August. It did not wait outside the earnings ledger: Marvell assigned it US$6.2 million of undistributed earnings and US$1.3 million of dividends for the quarter. The certificate already behaves like common equity in several places, but not in the one vote that chooses directors.

Marvell's US$300 million cash-settled forward reduced one source of volatility around the Celestial AI acquisition. It did not put the whole earnout on the same clock: the contract lasts about a year, while the revenue milestones and possible cash and share settlement continue through fiscal 2029.

Google can earn a large claim on Marvell equity, but the contract makes that claim pass through several ledgers. A product must qualify, Marvell must recognise revenue, a US$500 million step must be certified, shares must vest and the option must still be worth exercising. The US$120 billion full-vesting arithmetic is a ruler for that journey, not a Google purchase order.

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