Founded in 1995, Marvell® Technology Group is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has more than 5,000 employees worldwide. International design centers are located in the U.S., Europe, Israel, Singapore and China. A leading fabless semiconductor company, Marvell ships over 250 million chips per quarter. Marvell's expertise in microprocessor architecture and digital signal processing, drives multiple platforms including high volume storage solutions, wired and wireless networking, video processing and cellular products. World class engineering and mixed-signal design expertise helps Marvell deliver critical building blocks to its customers, giving them the competitive edge to succeed in today's dynamic market.
Key Markets
*Storage Solutions: Marvell is the market leader in data storage silicon solutions spanning consumer, mobile, desktop and enterprise market segments. The company's storage solutions enable customers to engineer high-volume products for hard disk drives, tape drives, optical disks, and solid state drives, as well as host adaptors and bridges.
*Mobile Connectivity Solutions: Marvell communications and applications processors provide full-featured, media-rich experiences to business users and consumers. Marvell processors deliver advanced integration, leading multimedia performance and superior power savings for a range of devices such as smart phones, mobile broadband-connected handhelds and portable navigation devices.
*Enterprise Solutions: Designed for networking and stand-alone applications, Marvell enterprise products include packet processors, switching, Ethernet transceivers and controllers, and system-on-chip solutions based on Sheeva CPU technology. Marvell enables reliable, resilient service delivery with industry leading performance for enterprise applications such as routers, switches, laser printers, media servers, point of service and network attached storage devices.
*Consumer Solutions: Through technologies that span WLAN, system controllers, power management, award-winning Qdeo™ video processing, PC connectivity, storage solutions and embedded CPUs, Marvell delivers a broad range of technologies for the digital home.
*Green Technology: Marvell is committed to developing and implementing green technology as both a supplier and user of technology to save energy and to help reduce our collective carbon footprint. With its DSP-based power factor correction (PFC) controllers, Marvell is using its power management expertise to take the lead in energy-efficient technology for AC/ DC power supplies and notebook computer adapters.
Technology Leadership
Breakthrough technology and innovative products, combined with dedication to customers and the consistent delivery of high-quality products, are the foundation for Marvell's growth and leadership in today's highly competitive semiconductor industry. Marvell brings together worldclass engineering talent and exhibits its technology leadership through:
*Proprietary DSP, mixed-signal IP portfolio
*Marvell Sheeva™ technology for industry-leading performance and power optimization
*Low power, complex SoC design techniques
*System-level expertise
Sheeva™ Technology: Marvell's Sheeva embedded Central Processing Unit (CPU) technology is at the heart of a broad range of applications – from mobile devices and consumer electronics to enterprise IT infrastructure equipment. Optimized for high-performance and low-power consumption, Marvell's Sheeva technology is embedded in tightly integrated system-on-achip (SoC) solutions that go into a broad range of products spanning mobile, consumer and enterprise infrastructure applications including smart phones, disk drives, routers and switches – and more.
Building upon Marvell's deep expertise in embedded CPU technology, including the prior generation of Feroceon® CPUs as well as the Company's acquisition of Intel's XScale® technology, Marvell's Sheeva embedded CPU technology is highly scalable, in terms of die size, performance and power consumption, depending on the needs of a specific application.
By leveraging the Sheeva cores across multiple applications, Marvell achieves economies of scale and provides cost effective solutions. Marvell's Sheeva CPU technology is fully compliant with the ARM instruction set, which is supported by a global ecosystem of developers and engineers.
The Marvell Advantage
Marvell products come with complete reference designs which include board layout designs, software, manufacturing diagnostic tools, documentation, and other items to assist customers with product evaluation and production. Marvell's worldwide field application engineers collaborate closely with customers to develop and deliver new leading-edge products for quick time-to-market. Marvell uses world-leading semiconductor foundry and packaging services to reliably deliver high-volume and low-cost total solutions.
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