Marvell Drives US$99 Smartphones to Market with New Pantheon Platform
By Marvell, PRNESunday, February 14, 2010
Pantheon-Powered Smartphones Support Android, Windows Mobile, and Other Leading Operating Systems
BARCELONA, Spain, February 15, 2010 - Mobile World Congress (MWC) — Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader
in integrated silicon solutions, today reinforced its leadership position in
processing, analog, communications, and multimedia technology by announcing a
new platform for smartphone manufacturers: the Pantheon(TM) platforms. The
new platforms are designed to provide breakthrough levels of integration that
inherently lower the bill of materials for mobile devices while offering
consumers excellent performance, connectivity, and compelling user
experience.
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"Marvell is delivering the platform for a US$99 smartphone that provides
instant access, live content, high performance 3D mobile gaming, rich HD
media and a wealth of applications. That is what today's 'always-on
consumers' want," said Ms. Weili Dai, Marvell's Co-founder and Vice President
and General Manager of Marvell Semiconductor's Consumer and Computing
Business Unit. "Marvell's versatile platform solutions have been making
high-volume smartphones more powerful, functional and affordable for more
than a decade. The new generation of platforms we are shipping today offer
higher performance and greater integration of onboard functionality-which
lowers the manufacturing costs and makes the mass market US$99 smartphone
very real."
The Pantheon platform incorporates Marvell's advanced modem technology,
seamless wireless connectivity, and superior multimedia processing to enable
superior mobile Internet experiences. Pantheon-powered smartphones deliver
high-quality consumer experiences that are designed to include rich user
interfaces; instant live HD quality video; high performance 3D mobile gaming;
extended music playback; other popular handset applications; and long battery
life.
Pantheon solutions include powerful application processors,
field-hardened cellular modems, radio frequency devices, intelligent power
management, power-efficient Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM connectivity and the software
and system expertise needed to bring new features to market more quickly. The
Marvell Pantheon platforms are currently sampling to top tier customers.
Pricing is available upon request.
Marvell at MWC
Marvell's latest technologies will be showcased at MWC in Barcelona.
Customers and press can come by the Marvell booth for demonstrations at the
Courtyard 18 location.
About Pantheon Platforms
The Pantheon platforms reflect an architectural evolution of Marvell's
field-proven tri-core architecture solution. Built from the ground-up to
deliver extremely cost effective, high performance highly integrated systems,
the Pantheon platforms have over 800Mhz dedicated ARM compliant application
processors, dual ARM and DSP processors for modem functionality, 720p video,
over 20 million triangles, DirectX, Open GL ES 2.0 compliant 3D graphics,
MIPI compliant camera, RF interfaces, and support for Android(TM), Windows
Mobile(TM) and other leading operating systems (OS).
About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage,
communications, and consumer silicon solutions. The company's diverse product
portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller,
wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications
infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As
used in this release, the terms "company" and "Marvell" refer to Marvell
Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit
www.marvell.com.
Marvell(R) and the Marvell logo are registered trademarks of Marvell or
its affiliates. Pantheon is a trademark of Marvell or its affiliates. Other
names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
For Further Information Contact: Marvell Media Relations Marvell Investor Relations Tate Tran Jeff Palmer Tel: +1-408-222-7522 Tel: +1-408-222-8373 tate@marvell.com jpalmer@marvell.com
Media, Tate Tran, +1-408-222-7522, tate at marvell.com, or Investors, Jeff Palmer, +1-408-222-8373, jpalmer at marvell.com, both of Marvell
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