Marvell Technology Group
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| Type | Public NASDAQ: MRVL |
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| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California |
| Key people | Sehat Sutardja, Co-founder Weili Dai, Co-founder Pantas Sutardja, Co-founder |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Revenue | $2.24 billion USD (2007) |
| Employees | 5000 (2007) |
| Website | www.marvell.com |
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is an American producer of storage, communications and consumer semiconductor products. Their products can be found in a range of applications:
- Consumer: Technologies include Wireless LAN, Voice over IP (VoIP), system controllers, power management, storage products and embedded CPUs.
- Enterprise: Marvell produces silicon devices for network switching, routers and wireless networking. Marvell was the first to develop merchant Gigabit Ethernet switching products.
- Storage: Marvell designed the first Gigabit all-CMOS read channel, the first Gigabit-capable system-on-a-chip and the first Serial ATA interface. These products are found in both disk drive and network-attached storage systems.
Founded in 1995 by a husband-and-wife pair of Indonesian Chinese immigrants who met at UC Berkeley, Marvell currently has more than 5000 employees. Marvell has design centers in Aliso Viejo, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, San Diego and Santa Clara. Outside the US, Marvell has design centers in Germany, India, Israel, Italy,[1] Japan, Singapore and Taiwan as well as numerous worldwide sales offices.
As of 2009, Marvell ships over 250 million chips per quarter, most of them including a CPU core. [2][3]
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[edit] History
[edit] XScale
On June 27, 2006, the sale of Intel's XScale assets was announced. Intel agreed to sell the XScale business to Marvell for an estimated USD 600 million in cash and the assumption of unspecified liabilities. The acquisition was completed on November 9, 2006.[4]
[edit] Controversy
In October 2006, Marvell was criticized for failing to publicly provide specifications of their hardware in enough detail to support their wireless devices in the One Laptop Per Child program. Marvell was criticized by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation and Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD. [5]
In 2009 Marvell announced that the SheevaPlug, a small, competitive, low-power, SoC-based ARM architecture computer, would be released with full schematics.[6][7][8][9]
[edit] Consumer design wins
- Marvell supplied the WiFi chip for the original (1st generation) Apple iPhone.
[edit] Acquisitions
Through the years, Marvell has acquired smaller companies to enter new markets.
| Date | Acquired company | Expertise | Cost |
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| October 2000 | Galileo Technology | Ethernet switches, system controllers | $2700M in stock |
| June 2002 | SysKonnect | PC networking | |
| February 2003 | RADLAN | Embedded networking software | $49.7M |
| August 2005 | Hard disk controller division of Qlogic | $180M in cash + $45M in stock | |
| December 2005 | SOC division of UTStarcom | $24M in cash | |
| February 2006 | Printer ASIC business of Avago | $240M in cash | |
| February 2006 | Xscale product line from Intel | Communications processors and SOCs | $600M in cash |
| January 2008 | PicoMobile Networks | Communication software for IWLAN and IMS |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Marvell Opens Chip Design Center in Pavia, Italy
- ^ "Marvell Corporate Profile"
- ^ "$100 Linux wall-wart launches"
- ^ Marvell buys Intel's handheld processor unit for $600 million
- ^ Matzan, Jem (2006-10-09). "Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row". The Jem Report. http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/. Retrieved 2007-01-21.
- ^ http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html
- ^ http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/plugtop-documentation
- ^ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123535737573645547.html#
- ^ http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/plug_computing_small_computer_digital_media/release/1256/
[edit] External links
- Official Homepage
- Extensive Bloomberg article that chronicles the history of Marvell's option backdating
- A unique nuance of the SEC investigation of Marvell related to privilege
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