Marvell Introduces the Industry's First Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Optimized for Mobile Computing.Business Editors/High Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001 The Alaska(TM) Ultra Device Features Lowest Power Consumption, Smallest Package and Advanced Power Management Marvell (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MRVL), a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications solutions, today announced the industry's first Gigabit Ethernet over copper transceiver optimized for the mobile computing market. The Company's single-port Alaska(TM) Ultra PHY transceiver delivers the lowest power consumption, smallest form factor package and advanced power management modes. Marvell's Alaska Ultra transceiver is the first and only Gigabit Ethernet over copper device to support advanced power management modes, including support for Wake-on-LAN, reducing power consumption to near zero (less than 5 mW). These low power management modes are critical to applications such as Gigabit-connected mobile computing appliances, including laptops, where the use of the Alaska Ultra device can substantially prolong battery life. A Gigabit Ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. connection for a laptop is either designed directly onto the system motherboard or is implemented through the use of a Mini PCI or Card Bus Type 2 adapter card. In either case, Printed Circuit Board (PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. ) real estate and system power consumption budgets are very restricted. The Alaska Ultra transceiver is the industry's first device to meet and exceed the stringent requirements of the mobile computing market. Marvell's Alaska Ultra device is featured in a 117-pin Thin Fine Ball Grid Array “BGA” redirects here. For other uses, see BGA (disambiguation). A ball grid array (BGA) is a type of surface-mount packaging used for integrated circuits. (TFBGA TFBGA Thin & Fine-Pitch Ball Grid Array TFBGA Thin Fine Pitch Ball Grid Array ) package with physical dimensions of only 10mm x 14mm--the only small and ultra thin package available today which is suitable for Mini PCI or Card Bus Type 2 adapter cards. The Alaska Ultra transceiver also incorporates proprietary and advanced DSP-based mixed-signal processing technology, achieving low power dissipation of just over 1 Watt--up to a 75% reduction in power relative to competing single-port Gigabit Ethernet devices. "Marvell's Alaska Ultra transceiver is the industry's first and only Gigabit Ethernet solution available today for the mobile computing market," stated Weili Dai, Executive Vice President of the Communications Business Group. "Marvell has established itself as the leader in Gigabit transceivers by capturing major design wins with all tier one customers in both the switch and desktop markets. With the introduction of the Alaska Ultra device, Marvell is now empowering the deployment of Gigabit Ethernet connections to the mobile market." Marvell Alaska Ultra Transceiver Product Information The Alaska Ultra transceiver is fully compliant with and exceeds the performance of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.3 standard, and includes the Physical Medium Dependent (PMD), Physical Medium Attachment (PMA PMA (papillary-marginal-attached), n a system of epidemiologic scoring of periodontal disease devised by Schour and Massler in which the symbols denote the areas involved in gingival inflammation. PMA Progressive muscular atrophy ) and 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). The Alaska Ultra PHY transceiver also supports Auto-MDI/MDIX at all three Ethernet data rates (10, 100 and 1000 Mb/s). This feature simplifies network installation and reduces installation costs. Further, the Alaska Ultra device performs PAM5, 8B/10B, 4B/5B, MLT (MultiLink Trunking) See port aggregation. 3, NRZI, and Manchester encoding/decoding; digital clock/data recovery; stream cipher scrambling/descrambling; digital adaptive equalization for the receive data path, as well as digital filtering for pulse shaping of the line transmitter; Auto-Negotiation; and management functions. The Alaska Ultra Gigabit Ethernet transceiver supports the Gigabit Media Independent Interface (GMII), 10-bit Interface (TBI TBI 1. Thyroxine-binding index 2. Total body irradiation ), and the Reverse 10-bit Interface (RTBI). Additionally, the Alaska Ultra device supports the latest Cisco-defined Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface The Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface (SGMII) is a sequel of MII, a standard interface used to connect an Ethernet MAC-block to a PHY. It is used for Ethernet Gigabit (as opposed to Ethernet 10/100 for MII). It differs from GMII by its low-power serial interface. (SGMII SGMII Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface ) and the Marvell/HP-defined Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface (RGMII) specifies a particular interface between an Ethernet MAC and PHY. RGMII uses half the number of pins as used in the GMII interface. (RGMII RGMII Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface ) specifications. Availability The Marvell Alaska Ultra Gigabit Ethernet over copper transceiver samples (88E1011) are currently available. The 88E1011 is priced at $36.80/1K quantity. About Marvell Marvell, a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications solutions, 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:
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 Avenue, Sunnyvale, California, 94085; phone: (408) 222-2500, fax: (408) 328-0120. Safe Harbor Statement of Marvell under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and 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 Ultra Gigabit Ethernet over copper transceiver for the data communications market 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 Ultra Gigabit Ethernet transceivers. For other factors that could cause the Company's results to vary from expectations, please see the 'Risk Factors' section of Marvell's joint proxy/prospectus on Form S-4 relating to the Company's merger and the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 27, 2001. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason. |
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