Marvell Debuts Alaska Quad Transceiver to Support Gigabit Over Fiber Networks, Further Extending Leadership Position in Gigabit Networking.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2001 The Alaska(TM) Quad Fiber Transceiver Features the Industry's Lowest Power Device to Support the Ethernet GMII/RGMII Interface Marvell (Nasdaq:MRVL), a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications solutions, today debuted its Alaska(TM) Quad fiber transceiver -- the industry's first and lowest power device to support the Ethernet GMII/RGMII interface for Gigabit Ethernet over fiber applications. Since the Company's initial introduction of its Alaska family of Gigabit Ethernet over copper transceivers over a year ago, Marvell has quickly established a leadership position in the development of PHYs for Gigabit Ethernet over copper media. Now, with the debut of the Alaska Quad fiber device, Marvell continues to extend its leadership position in Gigabit networking by supporting Gigabit over fiber networks. The Alaska Quad fiber transceiver, a single-chip device containing four independent Gigabit Ethernet fiber transceivers, supports a variety of applications, including Gigabit Ethernet over fiber (1000BASE-SX/LX IEEE 802.3z standards), Fibre Channel at 1.0625 Gigabit and high-speed serial backplanes. This device uses standard digital 0.15-micron CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. technology and features extremely low on-chip power consumption -- less than 250 mW/port or 50% lower power than competing solutions currently in production today. The Alaska Quad fiber transceiver also implements the entire IEEE 802.3z Physical Coding Sublayer The Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) further helps to define physical layer specifications for ethernet. The Ethernet PCS sublayer is part of the Ethernet PHY layer. The hierarchy is as follows: (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ) for Gigabit Ethernet, including 8B/10B encoding/decoding and fiber auto-negotiation functions. In addition, the device offers the industry's most comprehensive MAC interface support including GMII GMII Gigabit Media Independent Interface , RGMII RGMII Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface , TBI TBI 1. Thyroxine-binding index 2. Total body irradiation , and RTBI RTBI National Association of Round Tables of Britain and Ireland RTBI Retarded-Time Boundary Integral . This allows the Gigabit Ethernet PHY See physical layer and physical. to standardize on the Ethernet-defined GMII/RGMII interface for both fiber and copper applications, allowing OEMs to design more flexible and highly manageable Gigabit systems. This Alaska Quad fiber transceiver announcement comes on the heels of Marvell's recently publicized Alaska X device -- the industry's first 0.15-micron CMOS 10 Gigabit Ethernet 4-channel transceiver. The Alaska X device, designed for 10 Gigabit Ethernet and serial backplane applications based on 4-channel operation up to 3.125 Gigabits per second, leads the industry with the lowest power, smallest form factor solution on the market today, and also offers unparalleled jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle performance. Stated Gary Smerdon, Marvell's VP of Marketing for the Communications Business Group, "Marvell has continually led the market with its industry-leading single, dual and quad-port Gigabit Ethernet over copper transceivers. In fact, it is estimated that Marvell now holds over 75% of the available Gigabit over copper designs. Marvell expects to continue this leadership trend to become equally successful in the Gigabit fiber market." Smerdon continued, "Marvell's Alaska family of Ethernet transceivers now includes support for Gigabit Ethernet over copper and fiber media, as well as support for 10 Gigabit networks. The Alaska brand has become synonymous with industry-leading performance and the lowest possible power consumption." Availability The Marvell Alaska Quad fiber transceiver, the 88E1043, is supplied in a 256-pin BGA (Ball Grid Array) A popular surface mount chip package that uses a grid of solder balls as its connectors. Available in plastic and ceramic varieties, BGA is noted for its compact size, high lead count and low inductance, which allows lower voltages to be used. package. The device is priced at $26.29 at the 1,000-piece quantity and is currently sampling. 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 Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is an American producer of storage, communications and consumer semiconductor products. Their products can be found in a range of applications:
(1) (MicroSoft Installer) See Windows Installer. (2) (Medium Scale Integration) Between 100 and 3,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI. ), Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (MAPL MAPL Modular Affordable Product Line MAPL Mid Atlantic Prep League MAPL Maximum Allowable Path Loss MAPL Military Acquisition Position List(ing) MAPL Master of Advocacy and Political Leadership ), Marvell Japan K.K. (MJKK), and Galileo Technology Ltd. (GTL GTL - Gunning Transceiver Logic ). On behalf of MTGL, MSI designs, develops and markets integrated circuits utilizing proprietary Communications Mixed-Signal Processing (CMSP CMSP Custom Medical Stock Photo (Chicago, Illinois) CMSP California Motorcyclist Safety Program CMSP Certified Mine Safety Professional CMSP Certified Modeling & Simulation Professional CMSP Content Management Service Provider ) and digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). technologies for communications signal processing markets. MAPL is headquartered in Singapore and is responsible for Marvell's production and distribution 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: 408/222-2500, fax: 408/328-0120. 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. Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. Reform Act of 1995: This release may contain forward-looking statements based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our products, our industry, our markets, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us. Words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will," "should," and variations of these words or similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, market results may differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements in this release. Important risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause such a difference for Marvell in connection with the introduction of its Alaska Quad fiber transceiver for the data communications market and for Marvell's customers in connection with their commercial exploitation of this product's potential advantages as highlighted herein include, but are not limited to, the timing, cost and successful completion of technology and product development through volume production; the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt this product; the timing and results of customer-industry qualification and certification of our products; and, the timing, pricing, rescheduling, or cancellation of significant customer orders for our Alaska Quad fiber transceiver products. For other factors that could cause Marvell's results to vary from expectations, please see the sections titled "Additional Factors That May Affect Future Results" in Marvell's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 27, 2001 and in Marvell's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 27, 2001. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason. |
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