Machine Design is proud to reveal the winners of the 2025 EDGE Awards, celebrating pioneers and innovation in design and engineering, as chosen by readers like you.
Machine Design, along with affiliate brands Power & Motion, Electronic Design, Microwaves & RF, Automation World, Control Design and Control, helped select this year’s winners and honorees in 12 categories as well as an overall Leading EDGE Winner, recognizing the innovation with the most votes.
Below are winners and honorees by category; winners will receive a physical award honoring their achievement in the 2025 EDGE Awards.
Leading EDGE Award Winner
Marvell Ara 3 nm 1.6 Tbps PAM4 Optical DSP Platform from Marvell Technology
Pluggable optical transceivers play a vital role in data centers by converting electrical signals into photons for high-speed data transfer between server racks, then converting them back to electrical signals. Central to these transceivers is a high-performance digital signal processor (DSP).
Marvell Technology has launched a PAM4 DSP (digital signal processor) that could reduce power by more than 20% for 1.6-Tb/s optical transceivers, due in part to the use of a more advanced 3-nm manufacturing process. Marvell’s Ara chip integrates eight electrical lanes and eight optical channels, each capable of 200 gigabits per second, to deliver 1.6 Tb/s of throughput in a small, standardized module.
