Tensilica Licenses Xtensa LX2 Configurable Processor to Marvell(R).Marvell to Use Xtensa LX2 Broadly Across Various Product Lines SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Tensilica[R], Inc., today announced that Marvell[R], (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), the leader in storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions, has taken a company-wide license to Tensilica's Xtensa[R] LX2 configurable processor. This agreement was driven in part by Marvell's successful use of Tensilica's earlier Xtensa processors in high-volume printer applications, Yukon[R] gigabit Ethernet products, and LinkStreet[R] router products. Marvell plans to use the Xtensa LX2 configurable processor in various products throughout the company. "By using Tensilica's Xtensa processors in three very high-volume product lines, Marvell is able to take advantage of the extreme flexibility that these configurable processors provide for our design teams," stated Alan Armstrong, vice president of marketing for Marvell's Storage Business Group. "Our design teams will be able to deploy Tensilica processors in a broad range of roles, including many non-traditional design sockets within datapath and dataplane functions." "Marvell is a clear leader in the semiconductor industry and their continued use of the Xtensa product family further underscores the strengths of Tensilica's patented technology," stated Chris Rowen, Tensilica's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We look forward to working with Marvell as they take further advantage of the design productivity and performance improvements made possible by our highly automated configurable processor generation technology." About Marvell Marvell[R] (NASDAQ:MRVL) is the leader in 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 Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is an American producer of storage, communications and consumer semiconductor products. Their products can be found in a range of applications:
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., Marvell Taiwan Ltd., Marvell International Ltd. (MIL), Marvell U.K. Limited, Marvell Semiconductor Israel Ltd. (MSIL (MicroSoft Intermediate Language) See CLI. ), RADLAN Computer Communications Ltd., and SysKonnect GmbH. MSI is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. and designs, develops and markets products on behalf of MIL and MAPL. MSI may be contacted at (408) 222-2500 or at www.marvell.com. About Tensilica Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and specialty DSP processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family. Tensilica's low-power, benchmark proven processors have been designed into high-volume products at industry leaders in the digital consumer, networking and telecommunications markets. All Tensilica processor cores are complete with a matching software development tool environment, portfolio of system simulation models, and hardware implementation tool support. For more information on Tensilica's patented approach to the creation of application-specific building blocks for SOC design, visit www.tensilica.com. Editors' Notes: * Tensilica and Xtensa are registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica Inc. Marvell([R]) and the Marvell logo are trademarks of Marvell. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. * Tensilica's announced licensees include Afa Technologies, ALPS, AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) (JNI Corporation), Aquantia, Astute Networks, Atheros, ATI (AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ), Avago Technologies, Avision, Bay Microsystems, Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems, Cypress, Crimson Microsystems, ETRI ETRI Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea) ETRI Enhanced Threat Reduction Initiative ETRI Electronics Telecommunication Research Inc. , EE Solutions, FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network Systems Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HNS), is a provider of broadband satellite network products for businesses and consumers. HNS pioneered the development of high-speed satellite Internet access services and IP-based networks with its original DirecPC service but which it now markets , iBiquity Digital, Ikanos Communications, LG Electronics, Lucid Information Technology, Marvell, MediaWorks, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Laboratories America, NEC Corporation, NetEffect, Neterion, Nethra Imaging, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), NuFront, NVIDIA, Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., PnpNetwork Technologies, sci-worx, Seiko Epson, Solid State Systems, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Stretch, TranSwitch Corporation, u-Nav Microelectronics, Victor Company of Japan (JVC), WiQuest Communications, and XM Radio. |
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