Marvell expanding SSD controller deployments with world's leading OEMs

SANTA CLARA, USA: Marvell announced that it's total silicon and software-defined solutions portfolio continues to accelerate the connected lifestyle from consumer to enterprise across the globe.

Marvell's leadership in end-to-end storage, networking, computing, mobility and connectivity solutions is unique in the industry today and continues to be the driving force of connecting every aspect of the digital lifestyle, whether on the go, at work or at home.

In particular, Marvell is ushering in the next generation of storage technologies as leading global OEMs are deploying Marvell's SSD controller solutions across multiple platforms from enterprise and high performance mobile computing to smart phones and tablets based on Marvell controllers.

"High-performance, reliable, robust and secure storage is at the heart of today's 'Connected Lifestyle' for business and consumers, expanding from cloud infrastructures, networking and data centers to Smart Homes and mobile devices," said Weili Dai, president and co-founder of Marvell.

"I'm very proud of our leadership in storage technologies since the founding of our company, and now extending it to the fast-growing SSD market. Combining it with our innovative capabilities in networking, computing, mobility and connectivity and our differentiated software platforms, such as the Kinoma platform, we are empowering the high-tech industry by delivering complete end-to-end smart solutions to our global customers and partners, and we are deeply committed to making the world more connected and enabling better lives for all."

The industry is moving to the high-performance, low-power and cost-effective silicon solutions that Marvell is pioneering and the market is set to benefit from Marvell's leadership in the fast-growing SSD sector. Marvell's new PCIe and 6Gb/s SATA SSD controllers are in mass production and shipping to global tier-one OEMs, positioning Marvell as the clear frontrunner in the fast growing SSD controller market.

Supporting SATA target or PCIe end point, Marvell's SSD controllers feature an advanced architecture for data flow handling and NAND flash management and are the ideal solution for the rapid development of high-performance SSD systems in a wide variety of applications from mobile to enterprise.

Including super slim Ultrabooks, innovative M.2 form factors, custom form factors in low-power applications, value enterprise applications, and cost-effective caching solutions. SSDs across the board are quickly migrating to the PCIe interface, which is expected to gain market share in 2014 with the introduction of NVM Express, SCSI Express and advanced power management technologies.

The mobile and client markets continue to demand SSDs in higher performance, smaller form factor, low power consumption, advanced power management and with improved NAND Flash media handling.

Marvell's in-house controller technologies with advanced ARM processors, evolving IO interfaces such as eMMC and UFS and NAND Flash error correction capability including LDPC are designed to ensure the company's leading position and facilitate SSD market growth, fulfilling the need for the capability and expansion of data storage worldwide for the years to come.