14 DAY TRIAL // Leading provider of communications and consumer silicon solutions Marvell announced on Monday its ARMADA family of processors aimed at next-generation ARM instruction set smartphones, smartbooks, as well as consumer and embedded devices. The chips come with great mobility, featuring both lightweight designs and great battery life, and are meant to fulfill the current needs for high-quality entertainment, cloud-based service support and social networking.
The Marvell ARMADA family is based on the company's own CPU technology, and can provide desktop-like performance levels, as well as support for Adobe Flash technology and Blu-ray functionality. Moreover, they also feature great broadband connectivity, as well as a great array of price options, making them fit for a wide range of devices. The company's family of processors includes the ARMADA 600 series, aimed mainly at high-end smartphones, which can offer support for high-performance applications and multimedia features at low power rates and in small form factors. The family also includes the ARMADA 100 series, the ARMADA 500 series, and the ARMADA 1000 series.
“Designed from the ground-up, Marvell's best-in-class ARM CPUs are at the heart of each chip. Unlike comparable products in the industry, Marvell's CPUs deliver higher performance and lower power dissipation while providing full software compatibility to all ARM-based applications,” the company says. Moreover, it also adds that the ARMADA family of processors comes with support for a variety of primary operating systems, including Microsoft Windows Embedded CE, Windows Mobile, Google Android, Linux, Maemo, Ubuntu, and China Mobile's OMS. Moreover, Marvell also says that it offers “board packages for original equipment manufacturer's (OEM) development” with support for technologies like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Real Player from Real Video.
“Launch of the ARMADA family represents a watershed event in mobile computing,” said Ms. Weili Dai, Marvell's Cofounder and Vice President and General Manager of the Company's Consumer and Computing Business Unit. “The ARMADA family delivers to mobile devices what skeptics once doubted could be done: fast, PC-caliber processing, full Internet experience, rich media including HD quality video and 3D graphics - all in lightweight form factors with long battery life. There will always be a place for PCs, but the future of mobile computing - for smartbooks, e-readers, smart tablets and more - will by necessity get its DNA from smartphones, not PCs. Marvell's world-leading technology portfolio allows us to provide a complete platform solution not only for mobile computing, but also smartphones, gaming, printers, personal and home entertainment, and emerging consumer markets.”