Marvell Shiva Embedded CPU Technology Set to Drive Next Generation of Consumer, Mobile and Enterprise Applications


SANTA CLARA, California, June 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Marvell's Shiva CPU Technology Combines Gigahertz-Class Performance 
with Ultra Low Power Consumption

Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a leader in storage, communications and consumer
silicon solutions, today introduced Shiva(TM), the company's next-generation
internally developed CPU technology, raising the bar on performance and low
power consumption for embedded CPU applications. Shiva will be integrated in
a broad range of Marvell(R) system-on-a-chip (SoC) products spanning mobile,
consumer and enterprise infrastructure applications.

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Leveraging Marvell's deep expertise in embedded CPU technology, including
the prior generation of Feroceon(R) CPUs as well as the Company's acquisition
of Intel's XScale(R) technology, Marvell's Shiva embedded CPU is highly
scalable, in terms of die size, performance and power consumption, depending
on the needs of a specific application.

"With the introduction of Shiva, Marvell is demonstrating our industry
leadership in ultra high-performance, low power embedded CPU technology,"
said Dr. Sehat Sutardja, chairman, president and CEO of Marvell. "Shiva is
designed to bring PC-like performance to many consumer and business products,
while consuming a fraction of the power normally used by a PC."

Already, many of Marvell's SoC products incorporate an internally
developed ARM-instruction set compatible processor. With Shiva, Marvell will
boost the performance of products addressing its core markets including
mobile, storage, enterprise and cellular applications, as well as pursing new
market opportunities.

"Marvell has done an excellent job of delivering a complete features set
while using its ARM instruction set compatible CPU design and 65nm technology
to gain a cost and power advantage," said Linley Gwennap, president and
principle analyst, the Linley Group.

Marvell's Shiva CPU technology is now available in the new Marvell
86F6000 series of SoCs for notebooks and PCs and has been implemented in the
previously announced Discovery Innovation Series of SoCs for the Enterprise.

About Marvell

Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) is a 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
http://www.marvell.com.

Marvell(R), Feroceon(R) and Shiva(TM) are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Marvell or its affiliates.

Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

    For Further Information Contact:
    Marvell Media Relations
    Linda Sanders
    Tel: +1-617-505-6282
    lsanders@marvell.com

    Ogilvy PR
    Ian Yellin
    Tel: +1-415-677-2714
    ian.yellin@ogilvypr.com

Web site: http://www.marvell.com

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