SANTA CLARA, California, June 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- SheevaPlug Now Available to Developers in Europe; Ecosystem Partners 
Commit to Retail Products for Consumers

Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a leader in storage, communications, and consumer
silicon solutions, today announced that developers in Europe can now purchase
SheevaPlug(TM) development kits, outfitted for regional electrical
specifications, through www.plugcomputer.org from Ionics EMS, Inc. and
Globalscale Technologies. In addition to broadening the outreach to
application developers, Marvell is growing the plug computing ecosystem by
working with retail vendors such as BUFFALO INC., D-Link, LaCie and Seagate,
who plan to launch retail versions of the plug computer for the consumer
market.

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"The Plug Computer is one of the more amazing technologies that have come
out this decade and it has the potential to change the world," said Rob
Enderle Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group. "The open plug platform
gives European developers the opportunity to create applications, services,
and solutions that are only limited by their imaginations."

Marvell introduced the Plug Computing initiative to make 
high-performance, always on, always connected, and environmentally friendly 
computing readily available for developers and end-users. A Plug Computer is 
small enough to plug directly into a wall socket and is designed to draw so 
little power that it can be left on all of the time. Unlike other embedded 
devices in the home, it contains a gigahertz class processor that is designed 
to offer PC class performance.

"The wide range of applications created from the open-developer
SheevaPlug platform serves both retail product partners and service
providers," said Dr. Simon Milner, Vice President and General Manager of the
Enterprise Business Unit, Consumer and Communications Business Group at
Marvell Semiconductor. "We are thrilled to introduce SheevaPlug to the
European developer community and look forward to seeing many new applications
and new consumer product ideas developed and brought to market. Moreover,
Marvell is delighted to collaborate with retail partners such as BUFFALO
INC., D-Link, LaCie and Seagate on delivering new levels of user experience
to consumers."

The plug computing ecosystem is rapidly expanding to include a full value
chain of product partners, application developers and educational
institutions. A full list of ecosystem partners is available at
www.marvell.com.

About the SheevaPlug Development Platform

The SheevaPlug development platform uses a Marvell Kirkwood(TM) processor
based on an embedded 1.2GHz Sheeva(TM) CPU equipped with 512 Mbytes of FLASH
and 512 Mbytes of DRAM. Connection to the home network is via Gigabit
Ethernet. Peripherals such as direct attached storage can be connected using
a USB 2.0 port. Multiple standard Linux 2.6 kernel distributions are
supported on the SheevaPlug(TM) development platform enabling rapid
application development. SheevaPlug(TM) is designed to plug directly into a
standard wall socket and is designed to draw less than one tenth of the power
of a typical PC being used as a home server.

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 and M logo are registered trademarks; Sheeva, SheevaPlug and
Kirkwood are trademarks.

For Further Information Contact:

    Marvell Media Relations                Marvell Media Relations
    Diane Vanasse                          Tate Tran
    Tel: +1-408-222-5198                   Tel: +1-408-222-7522
    dvanasse@marvell.com                   tate@marvell.com