Fujitsu Selects Marvell For 2001 Distinguished Partner Award.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2002

Marvell(R) (Nasdaq:MRVL), a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications solutions, today announced that it received Fujitsu's prestigious 2001 Distinguished Partner Award. Only twelve companies were chosen from over 4,000 vendors for this honor. The Distinguished Partner Award recognizes Fujitsu's top-performing business partners, specifically acknowledging the companies that exemplify a true partnership through innovation.

"Fujitsu's ability to supply industry-leading solutions has been enhanced by our relationship with Marvell," said Mr. Ichiro Komura, Member of the Board & Group President, Storage Product Group at Fujitsu Limited. "Marvell was selected for this award because of its consistent storage technology leadership and its outstanding performance as a high-volume supplier. We look forward to continuing and expanding this successful relationship with Marvell to develop superior products for our customers."

Marvell supplies its industry-leading, high-performance read channel physical layer products to Fujitsu. Fujitsu depends on Marvell for its advanced signal processing techniques and Marvell's consistent data rate leadership, which, in the near future, will yield read channels capable of supporting up to 2 Gbps transfer rates. These attributes are especially critical for Fujitsu's enterprise-class storage devices. Additionally, the two companies have worked closely together in the development of Serial ATA technology. Marvell supplies devices supporting this newly developed interface technology to Fujitsu.

"We are honored to be chosen by Fujitsu for its 2001 Distinguished Partner Award," stated Dr. Sehat Sutardja, Marvell's President and CEO. "This award underscores our commitment to provide innovative and industry-leading solutions to our customers, and further validates our leadership position in advanced storage technology."

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of Internet-focused information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Its pace-setting technologies, best-in-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and worldwide corps of systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet to help its customers succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.48 trillion yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001. Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com.

About Marvell

Marvell (Nasdaq:MRVL), a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband system-level IC solutions for Internet connectivity and infrastructure, comprises 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), and Galileo Technology Ltd. (GTL). On behalf of MIL, MSI designs, develops and markets integrated circuits utilizing proprietary Communications Mixed-Signal Processing (CMSP) and digital signal processing technologies for communications signal processing markets. MAPL is headquartered in Singapore and is responsible for production, distribution and design operations. GTL develops high-performance communications Internetworking and Switching products for the broadband communications market. As used in this release, the terms "Company" and "Marvell" refer to the entire group of companies. The Company applies its technology to the extreme broadband communications market where its products are used in network access equipment to provide the interface between communications systems and data transmission media. MSI is headquartered at 645 Almanor Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif., 94085; phone: [phone], fax: [phone]. Marvell's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol MRVL. More information on Marvell is available on the Internet at www.marvell.com.

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