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| Mellanox (now NVIDIA Mellanox) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mellanox (now NVIDIA Mellanox) |
| Type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
Mellanox (now NVIDIA Mellanox) was a technology company specializing in high-performance interconnect solutions for data center, high-performance computing, and enterprise markets. Founded in 1999, the company developed InfiniBand and Ethernet adapters, switches, and software that were widely used by research institutions, cloud providers, and supercomputing centers. Its acquisition by NVIDIA in 2020 integrated its networking products with accelerated computing platforms, impacting deployments across scientific research, financial services, and cloud infrastructure.
Mellanox's chronology includes early engagements with IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and partnerships with Cray, Hewlett-Packard, Dell Technologies, Fujitsu, Cisco Systems, Oracle Corporation, Lenovo Group, Alibaba Group and Tencent. Key milestones involved participation in projects alongside Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CERN, Argonne National Laboratory and collaborations with National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency. The company attracted investment from firms such as Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Intel Capital, BlueRun Ventures and worked with customers including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Netflix and Yahoo!. Mellanox competed with Broadcom Inc., Marvell Technology, Cisco Systems, Emulex Corporation and QLogic Corporation. The acquisition by NVIDIA followed strategic negotiations that involved regulatory review by authorities in United States Department of Justice, European Commission, China Ministry of Commerce and consultations with stakeholders like U.S. Department of Commerce and national security entities. Historical recognition connected Mellanox to deployments at Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University and University of Cambridge.
Mellanox developed product lines used alongside processors from Intel Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, ARM Holdings, NVIDIA and accelerators such as NVIDIA Tesla, NVIDIA A100 and AMD Radeon Instinct. Its offerings included InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters, Ethernet Network Interface Cards, cables, and switches implemented with technologies comparable to RoCE deployments and standards from IEEE working groups. The company's Spectrum series competed with solutions from Broadcom and supported networking stacks used by Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services. Mellanox software innovations intersected with projects like OpenFabrics Alliance, RDMA Consortium, OpenStack Foundation, Kubernetes, Ceph, Apache Hadoop, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Open MPI and Slurm Workload Manager. The product ecosystem integrated with storage vendors such as NetApp, Pure Storage, EMC Corporation and Hitachi Data Systems.
Mellanox products were deployed in sectors that included research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, simulation centers at Sandia National Laboratories, and analytics platforms at Bloomberg L.P., Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Barclays. Commercial cloud deployments included Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud. Scientific applications spanned projects at Human Genome Project-aligned labs, climate modeling with institutions like NOAA, astrophysics collaborations with Space Telescope Science Institute and particle physics at CERN. Use cases entailed machine learning research at OpenAI, computer vision at DeepMind, and autonomous driving research at Waymo and Tesla, Inc..
Before acquisition, Mellanox's board and executive leadership engaged with investors such as Sequoia Capital, Israeli Chief Scientist-linked programs, and listed shares on exchanges regulated by NASDAQ Stock Market. Post-acquisition governance moved under NVIDIA corporate structures, reporting into boards involving executives associated with Jensen Huang leadership and corporate functions interacting with regulatory bodies such as U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Israel Securities Authority. Ownership transitions involved major institutional shareholders like Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Fidelity Investments and State Street Corporation.
R&D at Mellanox occurred in centers collaborating with universities including Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Illinois, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas at Austin and industrial labs connected to Intel Research and IBM Research. Technical contributions were presented at conferences like Supercomputing Conference (SC), International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Hot Interconnects, IEEE International Conference on Communications, ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX, ICML and NeurIPS. Patents filed by Mellanox intersected with portfolios held by Qualcomm, Broadcom, Marvell Technology, and were subject to licensing discussions with InterDigital and others.
Mellanox's transactions and operations encountered regulatory scrutiny from bodies like the European Commission, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, China Ministry of Commerce, Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry and antitrust authorities in jurisdictions associated with Department of Justice (United States). Legal matters involved intellectual property disputes similar in context to cases pursued by Broadcom, Qualcomm, Marvell Technology and litigations adjudicated in forums such as United States District Court for the District of Delaware and Tel Aviv District Court. The acquisition by NVIDIA required approvals influenced by geopolitical considerations involving United States Congress discussions and reviews by Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China.
Mellanox engaged in philanthropic and CSR initiatives partnering with institutions such as Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and nonprofit organizations like Israel Venture Network. Contributions supported academic research, scholarships, and infrastructure for high-performance computing in projects associated with European Organization for Nuclear Research and national labs including Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Environmental and social governance reporting aligned with frameworks referenced by Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, Global Reporting Initiative and investor stewardship from firms like BlackRock and Vanguard Group.
Category:Computer networking companies