Marvell Introduces World's First Ultra Low-Power 90nm WLAN Single Chip Solution
07/20/05 - PRNewswire
SUNNYVALE, California, July 20 /PRNewswire/ --
- Setting a New Standard in Power and Size, Marvell Extends Consumer
Market Leadership
Marvell(R) (Nasdaq: MRVL), the leader in development of storage,
communications, and consumer silicon solutions, today announced the
Marvell(R) 88W8686 -- the world's first ultra-low-power 90 nm Wireless LAN
(WLAN) single chip solution. Further expanding the Company's market
leadership in the WLAN space, the Marvell 88W8686 raises the bar on WLAN
performance by offering the industry's lowest total system power -- drawing
less than 400 Mw -- and the smallest total system footprint -- less than 50
mm2.
Marvell is the leader in the embedded consumer WLAN market with more than
70% market share. Marvell revolutionized WLAN with the introduction of
consumer-grade, embedded WLAN solutions for gaming, single and dual-mode
mobile handsets, PDAs, digital cameras, MP3 players, and printing platforms.
As a result, Marvell has enabled its tier-one OEM customers to successfully
introduce industry-leading products into the gaming, cellphone, imaging, and
PDA markets. Building on this track record of success, the Marvell 88W8686
represents three generations of leading-edge WLAN products, and significant
investment in silicon and embedded software development.
"Our vision of the smallest and lowest-power silicon solution drove our
90 nm process development. The Marvell 88W8686 gives our customers the
ability to enhance battery life by at least 100%," said Dr. Paramesh Gopi,
General Manager of the Embedded and Emerging Business Unit, Communications
and Consumer Business Group at Marvell. "This third-generation WLAN solution
builds on Marvell's leadership in system software, and adds revolutionary new
features for consumer products."
An example of Marvell's 88W8686 solution in a dual mode handset would
result in connected standby times in excess of 250 hours and talk time in
excess of 10 hours, versus current solutions which offer on average 70 and 4
hours respectively. Additionally, the Marvell 88W8686 continues Marvell's
legacy of supporting advanced layer 3/4 packet processing (TCP/IP) along with
enhancements for UMA and IMS 3G services.
The Marvell 88W8686 has defined a new standard of power, performance, and
size for WLAN solutions in consumer devices. By migrating Marvell's field
proven WLAN technology to the most advanced 90 nm process, Marvell has
created the world's smallest, lowest-power, highest integrated, single chip
solution.
About the Marvell 88W8686
The Marvell 88W8686 integrates an ARM compliant CPU, high speed serial
host interfaces including SDIO and SPI to ensure interoperability with a
variety of host systems, and advanced 802.11 a/b/g RF transceiver with full
cellular coexistence. Targeted at a wide variety of consumer devices,
including 3G+ and broadband handsets, the Marvell 88W8686 has full compliance
for advanced communications standards including complete support for L3,
TCP/IP, UMA and IMS. The Marvell 88W8686 incorporates Marvell's proven thick
MAC architecture, and offloads the host CPU-resulting in lower power and
increased system performance. The Marvell 88W8686 is fully backwards
compatible, with Marvell's field proven, industry leading WLAN software suite
for Linux, Symbian, Windows CE and other proprietary operating systems.
Availability
The Marvell 88W8686 is currently being sampled to key, tier one OEM
partners. To shorten design cycles and accelerate time-to-market, Marvell is
providing development kits with complete hardware reference designs,
development boards and a complete suite of software.
About Marvell
Marvell is the leader in 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, including Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (MSI), Marvell Asia Pte
Ltd (MAPL), Marvell Japan K.K., Marvell Taiwan Ltd., Marvell International
Ltd. (MIL), Marvell U.K. Limited, Marvell Semiconductor Israel Ltd. (MSIL),
RADLAN Computer Communications Ltd., and SysKonnect GmbH. MSI is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and designs, develops and markets
products on behalf of MIL and MAPL. MSI may be contacted at 408-222-2500 or
at www.marvell.com.
NOTE: Marvell(R) and the Marvell logo are trademarks of Marvell. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
For further information, contact:
Diane Vanasse
Marvell
+1-408-242-0027
dvanasse@marvell.com
Web site: http://www.marvell.com