SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Oct. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) — a worldwide leader in
providing complete silicon solutions from storage to Internet of
Things (IoT), cloud infrastructure, digital entertainment, in-home
content delivery and Kinoma® software enabling the "Smart Life and
Smart Lifestyle" — today introduced its high performance,
hyper-scale Marvell® AP806 and ARMADA® A3700 chips, the company's
flagship 64-bit ARM Powered® products based on Marvell's
revolutionary modular chip or MoChi™ architecture. The AP806
integrates Marvell's Final-Level Cache (FLC) architecture, and is
designed as a virtual system-on-chip (Marvell VSoC™) with multiple
storage and networking companion modules. A groundbreaking
ARM® Cortex®-A72 based SoC, the AP806 easily
and seamlessly connects to other Marvell MoChi modules creating a
Virtual SoC that enables lower system cost, simpler board design
and faster time-to-market. The MoChi architecture offers developers
and engineers the flexibility to build solutions based on their
individual needs, making the Hyper-Scale Quad Cortex-A72 AP806 the
most versatile, advanced SoC on the market.
Marvell is also introducing another member in the MoChi
architecture family, the ARMADA A3700, a Dual and Single Cortex-A53
based chip integrated with a mix of networking and storage IPs that
can be expanded with additional MoChi modules for connectivity and
offload options such as packet processor offloads, Wi-Fi, BLE,
ZigBee, USB, SATA, etc. The ARMADA A3700 chip addresses
cloud-distributed storage, networking management, home and small
office/home office (SOHO) routers and storage solutions, and
battery-powered IoT devices. The Marvell AP806 and ARMADA A3700
MoChi chips continue the success of the earlier ARMADA SoC
generations such as the Cortex-A9 based ARMADA 380 which is now
available in 2GHz core speed.
"Today's launch of our first product based on our unique MoChi
and FLC architectures marks a significant milestone, and we are
excited to see the great impact it will have on the technology
industry in helping drive the 'Smart Life, Smart Lifestyle'," said
Maya Strelar-Migotti, Senior Vice President of the Smart Networked
Devices and Solutions (SNDS) Business Group. "Marvell's MoChi and
FLC architectures are designed to provide a solution to combat the
pain points that the industry faces in the move to new process
technology nodes, and to address the critical need for lower
operating power systems. The Marvell AP806 and ARMADA A3700 are the
first MoChi modules in a long line of Marvell offerings that will
truly redefine how we innovate and build devices, bringing new,
cost- and energy-efficient solutions, and helping to improve the
lives of people around the world."
"As the industry has continued to drive toward advanced process
nodes, the push has always been for more and more integration onto
each SoC. Beyond 28nm, however, the steep rise in R&D and mask
costs is starting to take its toll on the bottom line of
semiconductor companies," said Linley
Gwennap, Founder and Principal Analyst of The Linley Group.
"The introduction of Marvell's AP806 MoChi module is the first step
in creating a new process that can change the way that the industry
designs chips. This Virtual SoC is a simpler, more flexible
approach that can reduce design cost and speed time to
market."
Marvell's MoChi architecture was designed to address the
challenges of producing single-die SoCs, which have historically
provided steep cost advantages through integration but have now
reached a limit whereby the cost per transistor cannot linearly be
improved. Implementing MoChi architecture in the AP806 and ARMADA
A3700 provides an optimized process selection per MoChi building
block while reducing the software investment for a single
architecture, and allows for countless configurations and shorter
time-to-market. A key element to the MoChi architecture is
Marvell's second generation Aurora2 coherent interconnect
technology. This high-speed, high-bandwidth interconnect
effectively ties together the CPU clusters and the MCi interfaces
for coherent, high-performance traffic. The AP806 also builds on
Marvell's Final Level Cache (FLC) technology, which reduces the
amount of DRAM main memory needed in a system and replaces it with
a small layer of high-speed DRAM cache and an inexpensive
solid-state drive (SSD) main memory, providing significant cost and
power savings.
"Networking and cloud infrastructure is evolving rapidly to
address exponential traffic and storage growth so the ARM ecosystem
is responding with highly integrated solutions such as Marvell's
hyperscale AP806 and ARMADA A3700 chips," said Charlene Marini, Vice President, Embedded
Marketing, ARM. "The combination of power-efficient ARM Cortex-A72
and Cortex-A53 processors with the MoChi architecture provides a
highly scalable platform to develop innovative storage and
networking solutions that will simplify system integration."
For information on Marvell's MoChi and FLC architectures, visit
http://www.marvell.com/architecture/.
About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a global leader in providing complete
silicon solutions and Kinoma software enabling the "Smart Life and
Smart Lifestyle." From storage to Internet of Things, cloud
infrastructure, digital entertainment and in-home content delivery,
Marvell's diverse product portfolio aligns complete platform
designs with industry-leading performance, security, reliability
and efficiency. At the core of the world's most powerful consumer,
network and enterprise systems, Marvell empowers partners and their
customers to always stand at the forefront of innovation,
performance and mass appeal. By providing people around the world
with mobility and ease of access to services adding value to their
social, private and work lives, Marvell is committed to enhancing
the human experience.
As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell
Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information,
please visit www.Marvell.com.
Marvell, the M logo, Kinoma, and ARMADA are registered
trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. MoChi and Marvell VSoC
are trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and
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