By Sandy Rodriguez, Corporate Staff Professional, Philanthropy, Marvell
Marvell is excited to be named “Fittest Firm” in the annual Silicon Valley Turkey Trot for the eighth consecutive year. Since 2016, Marvell has sponsored the Fittest Firm Competition and earned this title with the largest number of employee registrants in the largest firm category.
The biggest Thanksgiving Day race in America, the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot draws thousands of runners, joggers, and walkers to join in healthy activities on the holiday while contributing to the less fortunate in our community. Marvell had a total of 894 employees participate in the Turkey Trot this year. Since its inception in 2005, the event has donated $11.2 million and collected over 250,000 pounds of food for several local charities.
By Mary Gorges, Content Manager, Talent Branding, Marvell
At Marvell, we strive to create a culture of inclusion and belonging, where everyone feels welcomed, can share different perspectives, and work together to achieve a common goal. Veterans Day on Saturday, November 11 is an opportunity in the U.S. to honor the brave individuals who have selflessly served our country and to express our deep gratitude for their dedication and sacrifice.
In recognition of Veterans Day, let’s hear from military veteran Joseph Goodearly, who’s been at Marvell for 18 years in our Storage business. He shares his perspective on what this day means for him and the military lessons he learned that have helped him in his post-military career.
Join us in celebrating and honoring the contributions of our veterans and those currently serving in active duty around the world.
Here at Marvell, we talk frequently to our customers and end users about I/O technology and connectivity. This includes presentations on I/O connectivity at various industry events and delivering training to our OEMs and their channel partners. Often, when discussing the latest innovations in Fibre Channel, audience questions will center around how relevant Fibre Channel (FC) technology is in today’s enterprise data center. This is understandable as there are many in the industry who have been proclaiming the demise of Fibre Channel for several years. However, these claims are often very misguided due to a lack of understanding about the key attributes of FC technology that continue to make it the gold standard for use in mission-critical application environments.
From inception several decades ago, and still today, FC technology is designed to do one thing, and one thing only: provide secure, high-performance, and high-reliability server-to-storage connectivity. While the Fibre Channel industry is made up of a select few vendors, the industry has continued to invest and innovate around how FC products are designed and deployed. This isn’t just limited to doubling bandwidth every couple of years but also includes innovations that improve reliability, manageability, and security.
By Mary Gorges, Talent Recruitment Content Lead, Marvell
Women increasingly look beyond their own teams for advocacy and help to step into leadership roles and activities beyond their day-to-day jobs.
Inclusion networks are a way for many companies to allow any employee to raise their hand and try on new roles. At Marvell, Women@Marvell is our first-ever inclusion network, or what many refer to as an Employee Resource Group (ERG). But why women first?
“At Marvell, we are focused on elevating the lives and careers of women, not only in our company, but in the broader industry and the communities where we live and work. Women are largely under-represented in the semiconductor industry and are a hidden wealth of innovation and leadership. Launching our women’s inclusion network is just one small step toward helping women thrive,” noted Janice Hall, EVP and Chief Human Resources Officer and Women@Marvell executive sponsor.
Women@Marvell saw 500 women and men join in its first week. It offers mentoring, meaningful conversations, support and ideas to help members actively seek development opportunities. Leaders often share their influence and open doors, and members help each other find their way in more challenging times of their careers, such as becoming a first-time mother.
By Kristin Hehir, Senior Manager, PR and Marketing, Marvell
The sheer volume of data traffic moving across networks daily is mind-boggling almost any way you look at it. During the past decade, global internet traffic grew by approximately 20x, according to the International Energy Agency. One contributing factor to this growth is the popularity of mobile devices and applications: Smartphone users spend an average of 5 hours a day, or nearly 1/3 of their time awake, on their devices, up from three hours just a few years ago. The result is incredible amounts of data in the cloud that need to be processed and moved. Around 70% of data traffic is east-west traffic, or the data traffic inside data centers. Generative AI, and the exponential growth in the size of data sets needed to feed AI, will invariably continue to push the curb upward.
Yet, for more than a decade, total power consumption has stayed relatively flat thanks to innovations in storage, processing, networking and optical technology for data infrastructure. The debut of PAM4 digital signal processors (DSPs) for accelerating traffic inside data centers and coherent DSPs for pluggable modules have played a large, but often quiet, role in paving the way for growth while reducing cost and power per bit.
Marvell at ECOC 2023
At Marvell, we’ve been gratified to see these technologies get more attention. At the recent European Conference on Optical Communication, Dr. Loi Nguyen, EVP and GM of Optical at Marvell, talked with Lightwave editor in chief, Sean Buckley, on how Marvell 800 Gbps and 1.6 Tbps technologies will enable AI to scale.
Communities around the world are debating this question as they try to balance the plans of service providers and the concerns of residents.
Last year, the Greater London Authority told real estate developers that new housing projects in West London may not be able to go forward until 2035 because data centers have taken all of the excess grid capacity1. EirGrid2 said it won’t accept new data center applications until 2028. Beijing3 and Amsterdam have placed strict limits on new facilities. Cities in the southwest and elsewhere4, meanwhile, are increasingly worried about water consumption as mega-sized data centers can use over 1 million gallons a day5.
When you add in the additional computing cycles needed for AI and applications like ChatGPT, the outline of the conflict becomes more heated.
On the other hand, we know we can’t live without them. Modern society, with remote work, digital streaming and modern communications all depend on data centers. Data centers are also one of sustainability’s biggest success stories. Although workloads grew by approximately 10x in the last decade with the rise of SaaS and streaming, total power consumption stayed almost flat at around 1% to 1.5%6 of worldwide electricity thanks to technology advances, workload consolidation, and new facility designs. Try and name another industry that increased output by 10x with a relatively fixed energy diet?
By Loi Nguyen, Executive Vice President, Cloud Optics Business Group, Marvell
Some twenty years ago the concept of IP over Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) was proposed as a way to simplify the optical infrastructures. In this vision, all optical networks are connected via point-to-point mesh networks with a router at the center. The concept was elegant, but never took off because the optical technology at the time was not able to keep up with the faster innovation cycle of CMOS, driven by Moore’s law. The larger form factor of WDM optics does not allow them to be directly plugged into a router port. Adopting a larger form factor on the router in order to implement IP over WDM in a massive scale would be prohibitively expensive.
For routers to interface with the networks, a “transponder” is needed, which is connected to a router via short-reach optics on one side and WDM optics to the network on the other. The market for transponders grew quickly to become a multi-billion-dollar market.
A Star is Born
About 10 years ago, I was building a team at Inphi, where I was a co-founder, to further develop a nascent technology called silicon photonics. SiPho, as it’s called, leverages commercial CMOS foundries to develop photonics integrated circuits (PIC) that integrate hundreds of components ranging from high-speed modulators and detectors to passive devices such as couplers, waveguides, monitoring diodes, attenuators and so on. We were looking for ideas and customers to bring silicon photonics to the marketplace.
Fortunately, good technology and market need found one another. A group of Microsoft executives had been considering IP over WDM to launch a new concept of “distributed data centers,” in which multiple data centers in a region are connected by high speed WDM optics using the same form factor as shorter reach “client optics” used in switches and routers. By chance, we met at ECOC 2013 in London for the initial discussion, and then some months later, a product that enabled IP over WDM at cloud scale was born.
Employees have demonstrated remarkable resiliency over the past few years, adjusting to new ways of working during an unprecedented global crisis. It forever changed how employees think about their workplaces, careers, and personal lives, giving them new perspectives on what really matters.
As a company, Marvell has also been evolving, tapping into employee experiences, and listening intently to their opinions on what makes Marvell a great place to work and how we can continuously improve. We were pleased to consistently hear appreciation for being able to experiment with cutting-edge technology, develop skills, and build products that help connect people all over the world.
But another pattern took shape in their commentary as they emphasized the importance of teammates and leaders, uttering words like transparency, integrity, and respect. We believe these adjectives are no coincidence. They are interrelated characteristics Marvell has purposefully cultivated to help employees thrive.
By Raghib Hussain, President, Products and Technologies, Marvell
To our Valued Customers:
Recently, reports have surfaced alleging that certain Cavium products included a “backdoor” for the National Security Agency (NSA). We assure you that neither Cavium nor Marvell have ever knowingly incorporated or retained any vulnerability or backdoor in our products.
Our products implement a suite of standards-based security algorithms like AES, 3DES, SHA etc. Prior to 2014, some of our software libraries included an algorithm for random number generation called Dual_EC_DRGB. This algorithm was one of four officially recommended at the time by the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) that our products implemented. In 2013, this algorithm was reported by the New York Times, The Guardian, and ProPublica to include a backdoor for the NSA. After we learned of the potential issue, Cavium removed this algorithm from its software libraries and has not included it in any product shipped since then.
Importantly, the Dual_EC_DRGB algorithm was included in some of Cavium’s software libraries for our chip-level products, but not in the chips themselves. As a result, while Cavium provided this algorithm (among many), the ultimate choice and control over the algorithms being used was managed by the equipment vendors integrating our products into their system level products. Many companies, not just Cavium, implemented the NIST standard algorithms including this algorithm. In fact, according to NIST’s historical validation data, approximately 80 different products with semiconductors from different vendors implemented this algorithm in some combination of hardware, software, and firmware before it was removed.
By Samuel Liu, Senior Director, Product Line Management, Marvell
Digital technology has what you could call a real estate problem. Hyperscale data centers now regularly exceed 100,000 square feet in size. Cloud service providers plan to build 50 to 100 edge data centers a year and distributed applications like ChatGPT are further fueling a growth of data traffic between facilities. Similarly, this explosive surge in traffic also means telecommunications carriers need to upgrade their wired and wireless networks, a complex and costly undertaking that will involve new equipment deployment in cities all over the world.
Weaving all of these geographically dispersed facilities into a fast, efficient, scalable and economical infrastructure is now one of the dominant issues for our industry.
Pluggable modules based on coherent digital signal processors (CDSPs) debuted in the last decade to replace transponders and other equipment used to generate DWDM compatible optical signals. These initial modular products didn’t offer the same performance as the incumbent solutions, and could only be deployed in limited use cases. These early modules, with their large form factors, had performance limitations and did not support the required high-density data transmission. Over time, advances in technology optimized the performance of pluggable modules, and CDSP speeds grew from 100 to 200 and 400 Gbps. Continued innovation, and the development of an open ecosystem, helped expand the potential applications.
We take pride in creating cutting-edge technology, but what truly stands out about the employee experience at Marvell is that our people have the freedom to take on compelling challenges and find new ways forward while continuously advancing their expertise. The idea of ownership is central to who we are, and it is the cornerstone of how Marvell operates. Every day, our employees take ownership by improving execution, fueling collaboration, and shaping outcomes. They solve problems and ignite breakthroughs, proving that the impossible isn’t. And they own what’s next–for themselves and their teams, for Marvell, and for the customers and industries built on our innovation.
Watch the video to hear from our team members around the world as they speak in their own words about what ownership means to them.
I’m thrilled to announce that we published our second annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report today. I’m proud to share the progress we have made across the company. ESG intersects with all parts of the business, so it really is a team effort. This past year, everyone stepped up to improve performance in their key areas and launch new initiatives that strengthen Marvell’s business and impact.
The report provides the latest updates toward meeting our goals during fiscal year 2023. For instance, we submitted a Science Based Target for external validation, carried out a climate scenario analysis, conducted a human rights impact assessment (ahead of schedule), and maintained an employee satisfaction score above the industry benchmark.
By Janice Hall, Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, Marvell
At Marvell, we are focused on elevating the lives and careers of women, not only in our company, but in the broader industry and the communities where we live and work. One way we do this is through the women’s inclusion network, Women@Marvell, where I am proud to be its executive sponsor. We recently held a special company-wide event that celebrated our women and highlighted the need for support from our advocates. At this event, we gathered the regional leaders of Women@Marvell for a panel discussion focused on some of the challenges that women still face as professionals in the semiconductor industry, and what we can do to help propel women forward. I was inspired to hear the personal stories and shared experiences from our women leaders around the world.
By Kristin Hehir, Senior Manager, PR and Marketing, Marvell
Marvell and Memblaze were honored with the “Most Innovative Customer Implementation” award at the Flash Memory Summit (FMS), the industry’s largest conference featuring flash memory and other high-speed memory technologies, last week.Powered by the Marvell® Bravera™ SC5 controller, Memblaze developed the PBlaze 7 7940 GEN5 SSD family, delivering an impressive 2.5 times the performance and 1.5 times the power efficiency compared to conventional PCIe 4.0 SSDs and ~55/9us read/write latency1. This makes the SSD ideal for business-critical applications and high-performance workloads like machine learning and cloud computing. In addition, Memblaze utilized the innovative sustainability features of Marvell’s Bravera SC5 controllers for greater resource efficiency, reduced environmental impact and streamlined development efforts and inventory management.
There's a certain energy new employees bring to the workplace. Everything about starting a job is fresh and exciting: colleagues, offices, policies. The pressure to perform and succeed in an unfamiliar environment can also be intense.
At Marvell, we're going all in on the potential of our early career talent. We believe their perspectives can help drive success from day one. This is why hands-on learning and mentorship are embraced at all levels of the organization.
Marvell is excited to announce that we’ve joined the automotive chiplet initiative coordinated by imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Imec has formed an informal ecosystem of leading companies from multiple automotive industry segments to address the challenge of bringing multi-chiplet compute modules to the automotive market.
The goal of imec’s automotive chiplet initiative is to address the design challenges that arise from ever-increasing data movement, processing, storage and security requirements. These demands complicate the automotive manufacturers’ desire for scalable performance to address different vehicle classes, while reducing costs and development time and ensuring consistent quality, reliability and safety.
And these demands will be made even more intense by the coming era of super-human sensing. The fusion of data from multi-spectral cameras (visible and infrared), radar and LiDAR will enable “vision” beyond human capability. Such sensor fusion will be a critical requirement for safe autonomous driving.
Thousands of team members from around the world all have a hand in designing innovative semiconductor technology that moves, stores, processes and secures the world’s data. What keeps this ever-evolving global organization grounded and in sync? It’s our people and how they uphold our core behaviors: act with integrity and treat everyone with respect; execute with thoroughness and rigor; innovate to solve customer needs; and help others achieve their objectives. These behaviors shape our belief that how we do things is just as important as what we do, and they guide all of our interactions – both with each other and with our partners and customers. To illustrate how these behaviors come to life, let’s hear from Marvell employees directly.
By Suhas Nayak, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing, Marvell
In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), where compute performance often steals the spotlight, there's an unsung hero working tirelessly behind the scenes. It's something that connects the dots and propels AI platforms to new frontiers. Welcome to the realm of optical connectivity, where data transfer becomes lightning-fast and AI's true potential is unleashed. But wait, before you dismiss the idea of optical connectivity as just another technical detail, let's pause and reflect. Think about it: every breakthrough in AI, every mind-bending innovation, is built on the shoulders of data—massive amounts of it. And to keep up with the insatiable appetite of AI workloads, we need more than just raw compute power. We need a seamless, high-speed highway that allows data to flow freely, powering AI platforms to conquer new challenges.
In this post, I’ll explain the importance of optical connectivity, particularly the role of DSP-based optical connectivity, in driving scalable AI platforms in the cloud. So, buckle up, get ready to embark on a journey where we unlock the true power of AI together.
While Fibre Channel (FC) has been around for a couple of decades now, the Fibre Channel industry continues to develop the technology in ways that keep it in the forefront of the data center for shared storage connectivity. Always a reliable technology, continued innovations in performance, security and manageability have made Fibre Channel I/O the go-to connectivity option for business-critical applications that leverage the most advanced shared storage arrays.
A recent development that highlights the progress and significance of Fibre Channel is Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) recent announcement of their latest offering in their Storage as a Service (SaaS) lineup with 32Gb Fibre Channel connectivity. HPE GreenLake for Block Storage MP powered by HPE Alletra Storage MP hardware features a next-generation platform connected to the storage area network (SAN) using either traditional SCSI-based FC or NVMe over FC connectivity. This innovative solution not only provides customers with highly scalable capabilities but also delivers cloud-like management, allowing HPE customers to consume block storage any way they desire – own and manage, outsource management, or consume on demand.HPE GreenLake for Block Storage powered by Alletra Storage MP
At launch, HPE is providing FC connectivity for this storage system to the host servers and supporting both FC-SCSI and native FC-NVMe. HPE plans to provide additional connectivity options in the future, but the fact they prioritized FC connectivity speaks volumes of the customer demand for mature, reliable, and low latency FC technology.
By Michael Kanellos, Head of Influencer Relations, Marvell
AI’s growth is unprecedented from any angle you look at it. The size of large training models is growing 10x per year. ChatGPT’s 173 million plus users are turning to the website an estimated 60 million times a day (compared to zero the year before.). And daily, people are coming up with new applications and use cases.
As a result, cloud service providers and others will have to transform their infrastructures in similarly dramatic ways to keep up, says Chris Koopmans, Chief Operations Officer at Marvell in conversation with Futurum’s Daniel Newman during the Six Five Summit on June 8, 2023.
“We are at the beginning of at least a decade-long trend and a tectonic shift in how data centers are architected and how data centers are built,” he said.
The transformation is already underway. AI training, and a growing percentage of cloud-based inference, has already shifted from running on two-socket servers based around general processors to systems containing eight more GPUs or TPUs optimized to solve a smaller set of problems more quickly and efficiently.
ChatGPT has fired the world’s imagination about AI. The chatbot can write essays, compose music, and even converse in different languages. If you’ve read any ChatGPT poetry, you can see it doesn’t pass the Turing Test yet, but it’s a huge leap forward from what even experts expected from AI just three months ago. Over one million people became users in the first five days, shattering records for technology adoption.
The groundswell also strengthens arguments that AI will have an outsized impact on how we live—with some predicting AI will contribute significantly to global GDP by 2030 by fine-tuning manufacturing, retail, healthcare, financial systems, security, and other daily processes.
But the sudden success also shines light on AI’s most urgent problem: our computing infrastructure isn’t built to handle the workloads AI will throw at it. The size of AI networks grew by 10x per year over the last 5 years. By 2027 one in five Ethernet switch ports in data centers will be dedicated to AI, ML and accelerated computing.
Great news! Marvell is excited to share that the company has been recognized in the Best Places to Work 2023 largest company category at the annual awards program produced by the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal. Marvell’s inclusion on the annual list was determined by survey results provided voluntarily by company employees.
“This recognition reflects our focus on cultivating and continuously nurturing a culture where wellness and inclusivity are prioritized,” said Janice Hall, executive vice president, chief human resources officer at Marvell. “We have an incredible, diverse team at Marvell and I’m very proud of our commitment to creating an environment where everyone is supported to do work that matters, while given the opportunity to take ownership of their careers.”
Marvell is committed to being a good steward of the environment and we are excited to mark the 2023 Earth Day on April 22 with a week-long celebration. Our employees care about protecting our planet and want to do their part both at work and beyond.
We look forward to engaging our employees in virtual and in-person events throughout the week to enable them to better protect the environment, such as:
The Big 6 Sustainability Webinar:
We are kicking off the week with a global webinar with special guest speakers from Carbonauts, a company that teaches people how to reduce their carbon footprints and integrate sustainability into their day-to-day lives. Employees will learn the six biggest levers for reducing their carbon footprints. Carbonauts is a frequent guest at sustainability conferences and podcasts and the company’s clients include many Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, Chanel, Toyota, AT&T, Warner Brothers, and Netflix, to name a few. Carbonauts is on a mission to get society to the tipping point of behavior change to make sustainable living a way of life for all.
By Bill Hagerstrand, Security Solutions BU, Marvell
New Challenges and Solutions in an Open, Disaggregated Cloud-Native World
Time to grab a cup of coffee, as I describe how the transition towards open, disaggregated, and virtualized networks – also known as cloud-native 5G – has created new challenges in an already-heightened 4G-5G security environment.
5G networks move, process and store an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data as a result of faster connection speeds, mission-critical nature of new enterprise, industrial and edge computing/AI applications, and the proliferation of 5G-connected IoT devices and data centers. At the same time, evolving architectures are creating new security threat vectors. The opening of the 5G network edge is driven by O-RAN standards, which disaggregates the radio units (RU), front-haul, mid-haul, and distributed units (DU). Virtualization of the 5G network further disaggregates hardware and software and introduces commodity servers with open-source software running in virtual machines (VM’s) or containers from the DU to the core network.
As a result, these factors have necessitated improvements in 5G security standards that include additional protocols and new security features. But these measures alone, are not enough to secure the 5G network in the cloud-native and quantum computing era. This blog details the growing need for cloud-optimized HSMs (Hardware Security Modules) and their many critical 5G use cases from the device to the core network.
Marvell recently released its inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, detailing the company's goals, strategic approach, and commitment to building a sustainable future. Marvell's approach is based on the areas of greatest impact and opportunity for our company: integrating environmental and social considerations into our product design and responsibly managing the impacts of our supply chain, while focusing on strategic ESG initiatives that are material to our financial performance and long-term value creation.
Part of our overarching commitment to address ESG topics involves continuous improvement. That’s why Marvell has set a range of goals that showcase key areas of focus for our business, now and in the future.
By Kevin Koski, Product Marketing Director, Marvell
Last week, Marvell introduced Nova™, its latest, fourth generation PAM4 DSP for optical modules. It features breakthrough 200G per lambda optical bandwidth, which enables the module ecosystem to bring to market 1.6 Tbps pluggable modules. You can read more about it in the press release and the product brief.
In this post, I’ll explain why the optical modules enabled by Nova are the optimal solution to high-bandwidth connectivity in artificial intelligence and machine learning systems.
Let’s begin with a look into the architecture of supercomputers, also known as high-performance computing (HPC).
Historically, HPC has been realized using large-scale computer clusters interconnected by high-speed, low-latency communications networks to act as a single computer. Such systems are found in national or university laboratories and are used to simulate complex physics and chemistry to aid groundbreaking research in areas such as nuclear fusion, climate modeling and drug discovery. They consume megawatts of power.
The introduction of graphics processing units (GPUs) has provided a more efficient way to complete specific types of computationally intensive workloads. GPUs allow for the use of massive, multi-core parallel processing, while central processing units (CPUs) execute serial processes within each core. GPUs have both improved HPC performance for scientific research purposes and enabled a machine learning (ML) renaissance of sorts. With these advances, artificial intelligence (AI) is being pursued in earnest.
By Kim Markle, Director Influencer Relations, Marvell
Wind River and Marvell have collaborated to create an open, virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) solution for communication service providers (CSPs) that offers cloud scalability with the features, performance, and energy efficiency of established 5G networks. The collaboration integrates two complementary, industry-leading technologies—theMarvell® OCTEON® 10 Fusion 5G baseband processor and the Wind River Studio cloud software—to provide the carrier ecosystem a deployment-ready vRAN platform built on technologies that are widely proven in 5G networks and data centers.
CSPs aim to leverage established IT infrastructure for enhanced service agility and streamlined DevOps in the cloud-native RAN. Marvell's OCTEON 10 Fusion processor supports these goals with programmability based on open-source, industry-standard interfaces and integration with leading cloud software platforms such as Wind River Studio.
To ensure open-source distribution of Wind River Studio software, OCTEON 10 Fusion software drivers are being used by StarlingX, an open development and integration project. Marvell’s drivers enable Wind River Studio software to communicate with and control the OCTEON 10 Fusion processor. This facilitates developer access to an optimized vRAN system that offers new options for CSPs and helps to expand the carrier ecosystem of RAN and data center hardware and software suppliers, as well as system integrators.
By Johnny Truong, Senior Manager, Public Relations, Marvell
To address the growing demands of 5G applications (and beyond), networks are not only expected, but required, to offer features, performance, and capacity competitive with traditional RAN while improving energy efficiency and cost-savings.
Watch this video of Dennis Hoffman, SVP and GM of Dell’s Telecom Systems Business discuss how Dell and Marvell will continue building on its strategic partnership in pursuit of truly open mobile networks and how they’re bringing the power of Layer 1 Acceleration technology to the vRAN architecture with Marvell’s OCTEON® 10 Fusion processor, designed for 5G RAN.
By Kant Deshpande, Director, Product Management, Marvell
Disaggregation is the future Disaggregation—the decoupling of hardware and software—is arguably the future of networking. Disaggregation lets customers select best-of-breed hardware and software, enabling rapid innovation by separating the hardware and software development paths.
Disaggregation started with server virtualization and is being adapted to storage and networking technology. In networking, disaggregation promises that any networking operating system (NOS) can be integrated with any switch silicon. Open source-standards like ONIE allow a networking switch to load and install any NOS during the boot process.
SONiC: the Linux of networking OS Software for Open Networking in Cloud (SONiC) has been gaining momentum as the preferred open-source cloud-scale network operating system (NOS).
In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2025, 40% of organizations that operate large data center networks (greater than 200 switches) will run SONiC in a production environment.[i] According to Gartner, due to readily expanding customer interest and a commercial ecosystem, there is a strong possibility SONiC will become analogous to Linux for networking operating systems in next three to six years.
By Kristin Hehir, Senior Manager, PR and Marketing, Marvell
Marvell has been honored with two 2023 Lightwave Innovation Reviews high scores, validating its leadership in PAM4 DSP solutions for data infrastructure. The two awards reflect the industry’s recognition of Marvell’s recent best-in-class innovations to address the growing bandwidth and interconnect needs of cloud data center networks. An esteemed and experienced panel of third-party judges from the optical communications community recognized Marvell as a high-scoring honoree.
“On behalf of the Lightwave Innovation Reviews, I would like to congratulate Marvell on their high-scoring honoree status,” said Lightwave Editorial Director, Stephen Hardy. “This competitive program allows Lightwave to celebrate and recognize the most innovative products impacting the optical communications community this year.”
Marvell was recognized for the Marvell® Alaska® A PAM4 DSP Family for Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and the Marvell® Spica™ Gen 2 800G PAM4 Electro-Optics Platform, both in the Data Center Interconnect Platforms category. Key features of these 2023 Lightwave Innovation Reviews honorees include:
Marvell is committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and engaging workplace to fully leverage the perspectives and contributions of every individual at the company. We strive to create an environment where people feel fulfilled, inspired, and motivated to learn and grow, personally and professionally.
What Inclusion and Diversity Means to Marvell
Inclusion means focusing on respect, acceptance, and the ability to appreciate a culture-add approach where we can all bring our full authentic selves to work, every day.
To us, diversity means valuing differences. We value the unique perspectives and experiences of every employee. It is this uniqueness that every employee brings to the company, which is powerful and provides us with a competitive advantage.
Our Strategy
We have developed a strategy focused on four Inclusion & Diversity business outcomes:
By Johnny Truong, Senior Manager, Public Relations, Marvell
The Marvell® OCTEON® 10 DPU was awarded the 2022 Analysts’ Choice Awards for “Best Embedded Processor” in TechInsight’s Microprocessor Report.
One of the longest-running award programs of its kind, it salutes the top semiconductor offerings in the categories of data center, PC, smartphone, and embedded processors, as well as processor IP cores and related emerging technologies. Winning products were selected for superior features, performance, power, and cost in the context of the company’s target applications and competition.
The OCTEON 10 DPU--the world’s first Arm Neoverse N2-based processor in 5nm--is the latest version of the OCTEON processor family. By accelerating wireless, networking, storage, security and other specialized workloads, OCTEON 10 enables best-in-class features, performance, energy efficiency, and total cost of ownership for carriers, cloud providers, and enterprises.
The OCTEON processor family is used by four of the top six wireless infrastructure OEMs, in nine of the top 10 firewall appliances, and by other major networking OEMs.
TechInsight Chief Analyst Joseph Byrne said: “Processors for communications infrastructure have long pushed the leading edge for embedded products. Marvell’s feat shows that succeeding in the high-performance-embedded market doesn’t require leveraging smartphone or PC/server technology.”
Microprocessor Report subscribers can access commentary on the winners, details on what sets them apart, and other nominees in each category here.
To learn more about Marvell’s latest addition to the OCTEON DPU family, visit us at MWC 2023 in Barcelona at booth 2F34 in Hall 2.
By Peter Carson, Senior Director Solutions Marketing, Marvell
The rise of fully open and optimized vRAN platforms based on globally-proven 5G layer one hardware accelerators, led by Marvell, has given Open RAN operators the industry’s first no-compromise vRAN solution. Unlike the so-called “look-aside” general-purpose alternative, the Marvell architecture is host server CPU agnostic and uniquely enables (1) RAN software programmability, based on open source, industry standard interfaces and (2) inline hardware acceleration that delivers feature, performance and power parity as compared to existing 5G networks -- absolutely critical requirements of mobile operators. Listen to what leading operators are saying about inline vRAN accelerators.
By Rebecca O'Neill, Global Head of ESG, Marvell and Sandy Rodriguez, Sr. Compliance Analyst, Marvell
At Marvell, we are committed to giving back to the communities where we live and work. Our community engagement focuses on three key pillars:
Humanitarian endeavors supporting organizations that combat hunger, poverty and homelessness
Investing in innovative K–12 educational programs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
Championing community projects or initiatives to enrich the lives of our neighbors
The company will also match employee donations up to $500 per calendar year when an employee makes a donation to a nonprofit aligned with our philanthropic pillars. In addition, we launched a volunteer time off program, offering employees up to three days or 24 hours of paid time off per year to volunteer for causes they care about and support organizations working in our pillar areas. We aim to have at least 20% of our employees participate in our volunteer time off and employee match programs. Both of these endeavors are offered globally.
By Zvi Shmilovici Leib, Distinguished Engineer, Marvell
Industry 4.0 is redefining how industrial networks behave and how they are operated. Industrial networks are mission-critical by nature and have always required timely delivery and deterministic behavior. With Industry 4.0, these networks are becoming artificial intelligence-based, automated and self-healing, as well. As part of this evolution, industrial networks are experiencing the convergence of two previously independent networks: information technology (IT) and operational technology(OT). Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) is facilitating this convergence by enabling the use of Ethernet standards-based deterministic latency to address the needs of both the IT and OT realms.
However, the transition to TSN brings new challenges and requires fresh solutions for industrial network visibility. In this blog, we will focus on the ways in which visibility tools are evolving to address the needs of both IT managers and those who operate the new time-sensitive networks.
Why do we need visibility tools in industrial networks?
Networks are at the heart of the industry 4.0 revolution, ensuring nonstop industrial automation operation. These industrial networks operate 24/7, frequently in remote locations with minimal human presence. The primary users of the industrial network are not humans but, rather, machines that cannot “open tickets.” And, of course, these machines are even more diverse than their human analogs. Each application and each type of machine can be considered a unique user, with different needs and different network “expectations.”
By Amir Bar-Niv, VP of Marketing, Automotive Business Unit, Marvell and John Heinlein, Chief Marketing Officer, Sonatus and Simon Edelhaus, VP SW, Automotive Business Unit, Marvell
The software-defined vehicle (SDV) is one of the newest and most interesting megatrends in the automotive industry. As we discussed in a previous blog, the reason that this new architectural—and business—model will be successful is the advantages it offers to all stakeholders:
The OEMs (car manufacturers) will gain new revenue streams from aftermarket services and new applications;
The car owners will easily upgrade their vehicle features and functions; and
The mobile operators will profit from increased vehicle data consumption driven by new applications.
What is a software-defined vehicle? While there is no official definition, the term reflects the change in the way software is being used in vehicle design to enable flexibility and extensibility. To better understand the software-defined vehicle, it helps to first examine the current approach.
Today’s embedded control units (ECUs) that manage car functions do include software, however, the software in each ECU is often incompatible with and isolated from other modules. When updates are required, the vehicle owner must visit the dealer service center, which inconveniences the owner and is costly for the manufacturer.
I’m excited to share that Marvell is now a member of two leading automotive technology organizations: the Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge (SOAFEE) and the Autoware Foundation. Marvell’s participation in these organizations’ initiatives demonstrates its continued focus and investment in the automotive market. The new memberships follow the company’s 2021 announcement of its Brightlane™ automotive portfolio, and reflect Marvell’s expanding automotive silicon initiative.
SOAFEE, founded by Arm, is an industry-led collaboration defined by automakers, semiconductor suppliers, open source and independent software vendors, and cloud technology leaders. The collaboration intends to deliver a cloud-native architecture enhanced for mixed-criticality automotive applications with corresponding open-source reference implementations to enable commercial and non-commercial offerings.
As a member of SOAFEE, Marvell will access the SOAFEE architecture standards to help streamline development from cloud to deployment at the vehicle. This will enable faster time to market for the Marvell Brightlane automotive portfolio.
By Johnny Truong, Senior Manager, Public Relations, Marvell
At this weeks’ Leading Lights Awards Ceremony, hosted by Light Reading, Editor-in-Chief Phil Harvey announced that the Marvell® Deneb™ Coherent Digital Signal Processor (CDSP) is the winner of the Most Innovative Service Provider Transport Solution category. This recognition is awarded to the optical systems vendor or optical components vendor providing the most innovative optical transport solution for service provider customers.
Driving the industry's largest standards-based ecosystem, the Marvell Deneb CDSP enables disaggregation which is critical for carriers to lower their CAPEX and OPEX as they increase network capacity. This recognition underscores Marvell’s success in bringing leading-edge density and performance optimization advantages to carrier networks.
In its 18th year, the Leading Lights is Light Reading’s flagship awards program which recognizes top companies and executives for their outstanding achievements in next-generation communications technology, applications, services, strategies, and innovations.
Visit the Light Reading blog for a full list of categories, finalists and winners.
By Reza Eltejaein, Director, Product Marketing, Marvell
Manufacturers, power utilities and other industrial companies stand to gain the most in digital transformation. Manufacturing and construction industries account for 37 percent of total energy used globally*, for instance, more than any other sector. By fine-tuning operations with AI, some manufacturers can reduce carbon emission by up to 20 percent and save millions of dollars in the process.
Industry, however, remains relatively un-digitized and gaps often exist between operational technology – the robots, furnaces and other equipment on factory floors—and the servers and storage systems that make up a company’s IT footprint. Without that linkage, organizations can’t take advantage of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies, also referred to as Industry 4.0. Of the 232.6 million pieces of fixed industrial equipment installed in 2020, only 10 percent were IIoT-enabled.
Why the gap? IT often hasn’t been good enough. Plants operate on exacting specifications. Engineers and plant managers need a “live” picture of operations with continual updates on temperature, pressure, power consumption and other variables from hundreds, if not thousands, of devices. Dropped, corrupted or mis-transmitted data can lead to unanticipated downtime—a $50 billion year problem—as well as injuries, blackouts, and even explosions.
To date, getting around these problems has required industrial applications to build around proprietary standards and/or complex component sets. These systems work—and work well—but they are largely cut off from the digital transformation unfolding outside the factory walls.
The new Prestera® DX1500 switch family is aimed squarely at bridging this divide, with Marvell extending its modern borderless enterprise offering into industrial applications. Based on the IEEE 802.1AS-2020 standard for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), Prestera DX1500 combines the performance requirements of industry with the economies of scale and pace of innovation of standards-based Ethernet technology. Additionally, we integrated the CPU and the switch—and in some models the PHY—into a single chip to dramatically reduce power, board space and design complexity.
Done right, TSN will lower the CapEx and OpEx for industrial technology, open the door to integrating Industry 4.0 practices and simplify the process of bringing new equipment to market.
I am delighted to announce that Marvell is a Member of the new Semiconductor Climate Consortium. We have been active participants of the group over the past several months and are happy to share that the Climate Consortium is publicly launching today.
Why a Consortium?
Acknowledging that climate action is collective action, Marvell has joined the Semiconductor Climate Consortium to work collaboratively with other semiconductor companies that have also embarked on a carbon reduction journey, to accelerate climate solutions and drive progressive climate action within our industry value chain.
The Consortium is an initiative of SEMI, the industry association serving the global electronics design and manufacturing supply chain, and it brings together all parts of the semiconductor ecosystem, including manufacturers, equipment providers, and fabless solutions providers such as Marvell. Everyone has a role to play in advancing the industry’s progress on addressing climate change. The Consortium believes that by working together, member companies will bring collective knowledge and innovative technologies to do so much more than one company can do alone.
The Consortium recognizes the challenge of climate change and works to speed semiconductor industry value chain efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including through support of the Paris Agreement and related accords driving the 1.5°C pathway.
Today is Energy Efficiency Day. Energy, specifically the electricity consumption required to power our chips, is something that is top of mind here at Marvell. Our goal is to reduce power consumption of products with each generation for set capabilities.
Our products play an essential role in powering data infrastructure spanning cloud and enterprise data centers, 5G carrier infrastructure, automotive vehicles, and industrial and enterprise networking. When we design our products, we focus on innovative features that deliver new capabilities while also improving performance, capacity and security to ultimately improve energy efficiency during product use.
These innovations help make the world’s data infrastructure more efficient and, by extension, reduce our collective impact on climate change. The use of our products by our customers contributes to Marvell’s Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, which is our biggest category of emissions.
Today is Zero Emissions Day, which was started to raise awareness of the need to address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Here at Marvell, we recognize that climate change represents an unprecedented challenge to our planet, society and economy. That’s why we are enhancing our climate strategy by setting a Science-Based Target (SBT) and putting ourselves on a path to net zero carbon emissions. Our SBT will be aligned with a 1.5°C climate scenario, supporting the goals of the Paris Agreement which is aimed at reducing the worst of climate change.
Our new ESG Report provides a snapshot of our company’s greenhouse gas emissions:
By Kristin Hehir, Senior Manager, PR and Marketing, Marvell
Flash Memory Summit (FMS), the industry’s largest conference featuring data storage and memory technology solutions, presented its 2022 Best of Show Awards at a ceremony held in conjunction with this week’s event. Marvell was named a winner alongside Exascend for the collaboration of Marvell’s edge and client SSD controller with Exascend’s high-performance memory card.
Honored as the “Most Innovative Flash Memory Consumer Application,” the Exascend Nitro CFexpress card powered by Marvell’s PCIe® Gen 4, 4-NAND channel 88SS1321 SSD controller enables digital storage of ultraHD video and photos in extreme temperature environments where ruggedness, endurance and reliability are critical. The Nitro CFexpress card is unique in controller, hardware and firmware architecture in that it combines Marvell’s 12nm process node, low-power, compact form factor SSD controller with Exascend’s innovative hardware design and Adaptive Thermal Control™ technology.
The Nitro card is the highest capacity VPG 400 CFexpress card on the market, with up to 1 TB of storage, and is certified VPG400 by the CompactFlash® Association using its stringent Video Performance Guarantee Profile 4 (VPG400) qualification. Marvell’s 88SS1321 controller helps drive the Nitro card’s 1,850 MB/s of sustained read and 1,700 MB/sustained write for ultimate performance.
“Consumer applications, such as high-definition photography and video capture using professional photography and cinema cameras, require the highest performance from their storage solution. They also require the reliability to address the dynamics of extreme environmental conditions, both indoors and outdoors,” said Jay Kramer, Chairman of the Awards Program and President of Network Storage Advisors Inc. “We are proud to recognize the collaboration of Marvell’s SSD controllers with Exascend’s memory cards, delivering 1,850 MB/s of sustained read and 1,700 MB/s sustained write for ultimate performance addressing the most extreme consumer workloads. Additionally, Exascend’s Adaptive Thermal Control™ technology provides an IP67 certified environmental hardening that is dustproof, water resistant and tackles the issue of overheating and thermal throttling.”
More information on the 2022 Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Award Winners can be found here.
By Kristin Hehir, Senior Manager, PR and Marketing, Marvell
Marvell is deeply committed to elevating women in STEM and supporting female engineers and entrepreneurs in their efforts to succeed in the tech industry. That’s why we are so proud to announce that Marvell team member Cora Lam has been named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal Women of Influence Class of 2022 for her successes and commitments in both workplace and community services.
Throughout the past 21 years, Marvell has been the nourishing ground to foster Cora’s professional development. With Cora’s dedication, creativity, and excellence in execution, she steadily progressed from a junior engineer to her now current position as Senior Principal Engineer in the Central Engineering group.
For the last five years, Cora also surprisingly discovered her two greatest passions within Marvell - Women in STEM and wellness. She believes you don’t need to be a CEO to promote women in STEM, instead, you just need to be your authentic self, utilizing motivation, passion, and compassion to empower others. To Cora, having genuine compassion for others without any agenda is the source of true wellness.
Despite Cora’s busy work schedule, Cora is one of the leaders and key volunteers for the Women at Marvell (WAM) initiative since its establishment in 2017. By organizing events such as International Women’s Day celebrations, speaker series, and panel discussions, WAM aims to inspire and foster a culture of diversity, gender equality and inclusion within Marvell.
Through a WAM meeting in 2018, Cora first heard about TechWomen (TW), an initiative from the U.S. Department of State that annually brings over 100 women Emerging Leaders (ELs) in STEM from 20+ countries in Africa, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East to the San Francisco Bay Area for a five-week intensive professional mentorship and networking program. For Cora, TW was like “love at first sight”, and she became Marvell’s first and only TW mentor in 2018.
By Kristin Hehir, Senior Manager, PR and Marketing, Marvell
Data Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and solutions in the global data technology market, today announced the 2022 winners of its Data Breakthrough Awards. Marvell is thrilled to share that its Bravera™ SC5 SSD controller family was named “Semiconductor Product of the Year” in the Hardware/Components & Infrastructure category.
Marvell’s Bravera SC5 controllers are the industry’s first PCIe 5.0 SSD controllers, enabling the highest performing data center flash storage solutions. By bringing unprecedented performance, best-in-class efficiency, and leading security features, Bravera SC5 addresses the critical requirements for scalable, containerized storage for optimal cloud infrastructure. Marvell’s Bravera SC5 doubles the performance compared to PCIe 4.0 SSDs, contributing to accelerated workloads and reduced latency, dramatically improving the user experience.
“Our Bravera SC5 controllers were developed alongside cloud providers, NAND vendors and the larger ecosystem to meet the critical requirements for faster and higher bandwidth cloud storage,” said Thad Omura, vice president of marketing, Flash Business Unit at Marvell. “This award further validates the innovative feature set our solution brings to address the ever-expanding workloads in the cloud. We thank Data Breakthrough for recognizing the vital role that semiconductors play across the digital data industry.”
The Data Breakthrough award nominations were evaluated by an independent panel of experts within the larger fields of data science and technology, with the winning products and companies selected based on a variety of criteria, including most innovative and technologically advanced solutions and services.
More information about the awards can be found here.
Last week, Moor Insights and Futurum Research kicked off The Six Five Summit, a virtual, on demand event focused on the latest developments and trends in digital transformation. Marvell was thrilled to join alongside the world’s leading technology companies to share insights on strategy, innovation and where the industry is heading.
Marvell’s Raghib Hussain, President, Products and Technologies participated in the event’s Cloud and Infrastructure Day to discuss the evolution of the cloud data center including the shift from application-specific to data-centric compute. In his presentation, “Accelerating the Cloud Data Center Evolution,” Raghib focuses on how scalability, performance and efficiency are driving technology infrastructure requirements and why optimized and customized silicon solutions are the future of the cloud.
By Amir Bar-Niv, VP of Marketing, Automotive Business Unit, Marvell
In the classic 1980s “Back to the Future” movie trilogy, Doc Brown – inventor of the DeLorean time machine – declares that "your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.” At Marvell, engineers are doing just that by accelerating automotive Ethernet capabilities: Earlier this week, Marvell announced the latest addition to its automotive products portfolio – the 88Q4346 802.3ch-based multi-gig automotive Ethernet PHY.
This technology addresses three emerging automotive trends requiring multi-gig Ethernet speeds, including:
The increasing integration of high-resolution cameras and sensors
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Yesterday Marvell announced its intent to join forces with Inphi, a leader in high-speed data movement. A premier company in the semiconductor industry, and one of the highest regarded companies in our space, Inphi’s highly complementary portfolio accelerates growth and leadership in cloud and 5G.
Combined with explosive Internet traffic growth and the rollout of new ultra-fast 5G wireless networks, the importance of Inphi’s high-speed data interconnect solutions will only accelerate.
President and CEO of Marvell, Matt Murphy had the opportunity to discuss the deal with CNBC’s Squawk Alley team after the news broke yesterday morning. Catch a replay of that video broadcast here to learn more.
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By Matt Murphy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Marvell
如今的世界，与几个月前相比，已经有所不同了。 此次疫情对于我们来说是一场超乎寻常的危机，对于我们的运营系统与价值观来说，都是一场考验。 这场危机还提醒了我们什么更值得珍视，那就是我们与他人的人际关系。 As billions of us shelter in our homes around the clock – working, exercising, educating, and sharing the same space - it is an opportunity to appreciate quality time with our immediate family. 但同时，我们也失去了与其他不在同一屋檐下，也是我们珍爱的人之间的联系，并为那些身体欠佳人的健康与安全感到担忧。 我们无法与同事面对面，只能通过电脑屏幕见面，而不是在走廊或者午餐时间碰面。 我们也失去了很多其他机会，比如在社区内面见朋友、在非常喜欢的餐馆里享受美食、在农贸市场购物，以及在公园内徒步（因其已闭园）。
有了新方式，HPE Gen10 Plus 客户可以在 HPE 产品描述中看到 Marvell 型号，并在服务器启动时识别出 Marvell 供应商和产品 ID。 然后可经引导至 Marvell，获取详细说明、用户指南、技术简介，甚至是固件和/或驱动程序下载。 The support model will not change and HPE will continue to provide level 1 - 3 support. 新方式将通过以下几种途径使 HPE 客户受益：
特定产品类型和型号信息的透明性：无需使用复杂的解码器辅助工具或其他文档来确定实际制造商。
操作系统 HCL 的产品/型号命名的一致性，节省多方核对 I/O 和操作系统兼容性的时间。
固件/驱动程序增强功能和更新推向市场的速度更快，使修复程序可以在制造商开始提供时即获得。
能够简化跨多供应商服务器环境的维护流程，并直接从制造商网站获取固件/驱动程序。
对于那些喜欢使用 HPE 特定部署软件以及实用程序（如 HPE System Insight Manager (SIM)、System Update Manager (SUM) 或 Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP)）的 HPE ProLiant 客户，HPE 也将通过其标准季度流程提供固件和驱动程序。
Monday, August 26, marked the anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment being signed into law and granting American women the constitutional right to vote. 为了纪念即将到来的百年庆典，硅谷领导力集团启组织了一系列活动，向女性开拓者致敬，并号召各行业的女性杰出人物能积极参与。 在 Marvell 围绕多样性和平等而构建的核心价值观中，赋予女性杰出人物权力对 Marvell 及其高管团队来说非常重要，公司也成为了周一活动的荣誉赞助商。
这场为期一天的小组讨论在 NASA 位于山景城的埃姆斯研究中心举行，致敬女性自选举权运动以来所取得的成就，与会者全部为来自于硅谷和美国非常具有成就的女性代表。
在德国法兰克福举办的 ISC High Performance 今日刚刚闭幕，这是一年中非常重要的服务器盛会之一，此项盛会经常充当行业重大发布的催化剂。 今年也不例外，NVIDIA 宣布将为基于 Arm 架构的服务器提供支持。 通过这一举措，截至 2019 年底前，NVIDIA 将为 Arm 生态系统提供全栈 AI 及高性能计算软件。 其中内含所有的 NVIDIA CUDA-X AI 及 HPC 库、GPU 加速型 AI 框架及软件开发工具，比如 PGI 编译器及 OpenACC 支持和诊断工具。 NVIDIA’s full software suite support will enable the acceleration of more than 600 HPC applications and AI frameworks on Marvell® ThunderX2® systems.
NVIDIA 对 Arm CPU 的支持，标志着基于 Arm 的服务器生态系统更进一步的完善。 在围绕 Arm 架构的标准、完整且具竞争力的生态系统中，从底层固件、系统软件，乃至商业版 ISV 应用程序，无不涉及，而 Marvell 一直是推动生态系统不断发展的主要推动。 The Marvell ThunderX2 processor is the most widely deployed Arm server in the market today and the only Arm server on the prestigious top 500 super computer list with the Astra system at Sandia National Laboratories.
在企业领域，目前来看以太网是最常用的传输技术。 Consequently, we can ignore the InfiniBand option, as it would require a forklift upgrade to the I/O existing infrastructure - thus making it way too costly for the vast majority of enterprise data centers. 于是，选择只剩下了 RoCE 和 iWARP。 以上两者都能够在以太网络中提供低延迟连接。 但是哪一款更适合您？
首先，我们了解一下以上两种协议间的根本区别。 RoCE 是两种协议中最常用的一种，并且已经为全球众多云端超大规模客户所采用。 包括 Marvell 在内的多家供应商均能提供启用 RDMA 运行 RoCE 的适配器。
RoCE 能够提供 1-5us 范围内的适配器延迟，但要求有无损以太网才能实现低延迟运行。 这意味着集成到网络中的以太网交换机必须支持数据中心桥接（DCB)和优先流控制(PFC)机制，以此才能维持无损流量。 因此要想使用 RoCE 可能需要重新配置以太网交换机。 无损或聚合以太网的难点在于，在现代化的企业环境中，配置是一个复杂的流程，并且可扩展性会受到很大的局限。 尽管大规模采用 RoCE 并非不可能，但需要实施额外的流量拥堵控制机制，例如数据中心量化拥堵通知 (DCQCN)，而这反过来又要求配备大量经验丰富的网络工程师与管理员。 虽然超大规模客户有能力实现以上要求，但并非所有企业客户都具备这样的实力。 小规模企业的人力资源和财务预算会受到更多限制。
The consumer drone market has expanded greatly over the last few years, with almost 3 million units shipped during 2017. 这种上升趋势很可能继续持续。 据分析公司 Statista 预测，至 2020 年，商用无人机业务的市场规模将达 64 亿美元。另外，据 Global Market Insights 预测，全球无人机市场的整体规模到 2020 年将增长至 170 亿美元（其中消费类别占 90 亿美元）。 目前市场上已经有了非常多款型的无人机，而且新产品还在不断涌入，所以，新产品是否具有差异性对于其在市场上获得成功至关重要。
众多涌入者中，新面世介入也非常让人喜出望外的产品之一便是 Tello，它所提供的功能与市场中的其他竞争产品截然不同。 Tello 由深圳创业公司 Ryze Tech 生产，该公司是世界上最大的无人机和无人飞行器 (UAV) 生产商 - 知名品牌 DJI 的子公司。 Tello 运行时间为 13 分钟，飞行距离可达 100 米，是一款非常具有操控性的紧凑型四旋翼无人机。 其重量只有 80 克，绝大多数青少年的手掌即可轻松掌握（尺寸仅为 98 x 92.5 x 41 毫米）。 Tello 具有娱乐和教育两大主要目标。 为实现此目标，基于智能手机应用的操控模式为每位用户（包括年轻人）提供了有趣的用户界面以与无人机进行互动。 而易于编程的可视化布局则满足了教育目标，允许用户使用软件包中包含的综合软件开发工具包 (SDK) 编写自己想要的代码。 What really distinguishes Tello from other drones, however, is the breadth of its imaging capabilities - and this is where engaging with Marvell has proven pivotal.
Initial discussions between technical teams at Ryze and Marvell revealed a perfect match between the features offered on the Marvell® 1x1 802.11n single-band Wi-Fi system-on-chip (SoC) and the Wi-Fi requirements for the Tello drone project. 该芯片在市场上得到广泛采用，并已成为各种客户应用中出色的解决方案，包括 IP 摄像头、移动路由器、IoT 网关等。 睿炽公司最终选择此芯片组，是因为 Marvell 产品在空中无线传输高清视频的同时具备可靠性，且能在提供超低功耗操作的同时表现出超量程的卓越 RF 性能，并且其价格非常具有竞争力。
全球科技领域的主要代表上周齐聚圣何塞会展中心，共同谛听今年年度电子创新 (ACE) 大奖花落谁家。 此项久负盛名的赛事由杰出的电子工程杂志 EDN 和 EE Times 共同组织，重点奖励过往 12 个月推向市场的非常具有创新品质的产品，以及非常具有前瞻意识的高层领导和非常有潜力的创业公司。 由杂志的编辑团队和多位备受尊敬的独立评委组成的评审团，将参与选择每个分类的大奖得主。Marvell 于今年早些时候推出的 88NV1160 高性能控制器用于非易失性存储器 (NVMe)，该产品击败 Diodes Inc. 和 Cypress 半导体公司等生产的强劲竞争产品，赢得梦寐以求的逻辑/接口/内存类大奖。 Marvell gained two further nominations at the awards - with 98PX1012 Prestera PX Passive Intelligent Port Extender (PIPE) also being featured in the Logic/Interface/Memory category, while the 88W8987xA automotive wireless combo SoC was among those cited in the Automotive category.
通过与主机存储缓冲技术的配合，88NV1160 表现出大大低于同类竞争产品的延迟率。 正是这一点支持该设备极大提高了读取速度。 By utilizing its embedded SRAM, the controller does not need to rely on an external DRAM memory - thereby simplifying the memory controller implementation. 并最终大幅减少所需的主板空间，同时降低了产品的总体物料清单成本。
88NV1160 特有的 NANDEdge™ 低密度奇偶校验纠错功能提高了 SSD 的耐久度，确保最终产品在整个使用寿命期间，都能维持长期的系统可靠性。 该控制器内置 256 位 AES 加密引擎，能够保证所存储元数据的安全性，使其不因潜在的安全漏洞而遭到攻击。 除此之外，这些无 DRAM 的 IC 外形非常紧凑，因而非常有利于实现多芯片封装的集成。
现在客户都希望他们的便携式电子设备能够具备更多的计算资源，这样才可以使用大量令人垂涎的新上市软件应用；充分利用基于云的服务，享受增强现实和游戏的乐趣。 在提供此类功能的同时，此类设备产品需要能够支持更长的电池使用时间，减少充电次数，如此方能进一步提高用户所得到的使用体验。 客户需要先进的 IC 在具备强大处理能力的同时改善能耗水平，而 88NV1160 正好满足了这种需求。 "We're excited to honor this robust group for their dedication to their craft and efforts in bettering the industry for years to come," said Nina Brown, Vice President of Events at UBM Americas. "The judging panel was given the difficult task of selecting winners from an incredibly talented group of finalists and we'd like to thank all of those participants for their amazing work and also honor their achievements. These awards aim to shine a light on the best in today's electronics realm and this group is the perfect example of excellence within both an important and complex industry."
This technology is showcased in the Marvell® EZ-Connect® HAP software development kit (SDK), which is designed to facilitate the implementation of HomeKit-enabled home automation accessories - accelerating our OEM customers’ design cycles and allowing products to be brought to market more quickly. 为了补充 802.11n 无线连接的不足，其中集成的桥接功能还可使用其他 RF 协议（例如低能耗蓝牙技术）实现与设备之间的桥接。 例如，Marvell 已与一家排名靠前的低能耗蓝牙供应商达成合作关系，提供一个组合模块参考设计，目前该产品已经上市，可以通过 Marvell 的模块供应商合作伙伴之一 Azurewave 进行购买。 我们在安全、加密和存储分区方面的重点研究实现了安全的空中固件升级，这样客户应用可以通过外部闪存安全运行，同时在空中时保持加密状态。 Marvell 的 SDK 还支持 Amazon 广受欢迎的 AWS 云平台以及 Google 的 Weave/Cloud 平台作为替代。 为搭配 SDK，Marvell 计划向 OEM 提供所有必要的附件，帮助他们的产品以更快、更轻松的方式通过 HomeKit 认证程序，并尽快投放市场。 Marvell 还会提供辅助作用的项目范例。
Marvell 理解强劲的软件解决方案，对于实现毫无障碍的家庭自动化用户体验，有着何等至关重要的作用，并已开发出行业排名靠前的软件性能来支持 Apple HomeKit。 这让 Marvell 在激烈的竞争中始终保持佼佼者地位。
This is the second instalment in a series of blogs covering the history of Wi-Fi®. While the first part looked at the origins of Wi-Fi, this part will look at how the technology has progressed to the high speed connection we know today.
Wireless Revolution
Hotspots began popping up at coffee shops, airports and hotels as businesses and consumers started to realize the potential for Wi-Fi to enable early forms of what we now know as mobile computing.
Thanks to the IEEE® 802.11 working group's efforts, a proprietary wireless protocol that was originally designed simply for connecting cash registers (see previous blog) had become the basis for a wireless networking standard that was changing the whole fabric of society.
As broadband speeds became the norm, consumer's computer usage habits changed accordingly.
Even in the early 2000's, the speed that 802.11b could support was far from cutting edge. On the wired side of things, 10/100 Ethernet was already a widespread standard. At 100 Mbit/s, it was almost 10 times faster than 802.11b's nominal 11 Mbit/s speed. 802.11b's protocol overhead meant that, in fact, maximum theoretical speeds were 5.9 Mbit/s. In practice though, as 802.11b used the increasingly popular 2.4 GHz band, speeds proved to be lower than that still. Interference from microwave ovens, cordless phones and other consumer electronics, meant that real world speeds often didn't reach the 5.9 Mbit/s mark (sometimes not even close).
802.11G
Though 802.11g would use the 2.4 GHz frequency band just like 802.11b, it was able to achieve speeds of up to 54 Mbit/s.
That crown goes to 802.11a, which had done it back in 1999. However, 802.11a used a separate 5.8 GHz frequency to achieve its fast speeds. While 5.8 GHz had the benefit of less radio interference from consumer electronics, it also meant incompatibility with 802.11b.
This was crucial, as 802.11b had already established itself as the main wireless standard for consumer devices by this point.
802.11n
Introduced in 2009, 802.11n made further speed improvements upon 802.11g and 802.11a. Operating on either 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz frequency bands (though not simultaneously), 802.11n improved transfer efficiency through frame aggregation, and also introduced optional MIMO and 40 Hz channels - double the channel width of 802.11g.
At the low end, if it was operating in the same type of single antenna, 20 Hz channel width configuration as an 802.11g network, the 802.11n network could achieve 72 Mbit/s. If, in addition, the double width 40 Hz channel was used, with multiple antennas, then data rates could be much faster - up to 600 Mbit/s (for a four antenna configuration).
The third and final blog in this series will take us right up to the modern day and will also look at the potential of Wi-Fi in the future.
At last week’s 2017 OCP U.S. Summit, it was impossible to miss the buzz and activity happening at Marvell’s booth. Taking our mantra #MarvellOnTheMove to heart, the team worked tirelessly throughout the week to present and demo Marvell’s vision for the future of the data center, which came to fruition with the launch of our newest Prestera® PX Passive Intelligent Port Extender (PIPE) family.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves… Marvell kicked off OCP with two speaking sessions from its leading technologists. Yaniv Kopelman, Networking CTO of the Networking Group, presented "Extending the Lifecycle of 3.2T Switches,” a discussion on the concept of port extender technology and how to apply it to future data center architecture. Michael Zimmerman, vice president and general manager of the Networking Group, then spoke on "Modular Networking" and teased Marvell's first modular solution based on port extender technology.
We’re especially excited to introduce our PIPE solution on the heels of OCP because of the dramatic impact we anticipate it will have on the data center…
Amidst all of the announcements, speaking sessions and demos, our very own George Hervey, principal architect, also sat down with Semiconductor Engineering’s Ed Sperling for a Tech Talk. In the white board session, George discussed the power efficiency of networking in the enterprise and how costs can be saved by rightsizing Ethernet equipment.
Summit was filled with activity for Marvell, and we can’t wait to see how our customers benefit from our suite of data center solutions.
What were some of your OCP highlights? Did you get a chance to stop by the Marvell booth at the show? Tweet us at @marvellsemi to let us know, and check out all of the activity from last week. We want to hear from you!
The IEEE’s Ethernet standards act as the connectivity backbone to seamlessly link the different domains of the car such as infotainment and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Marvell is proud to have played an instrumental role in the development of the IEEE 802.3bp 1000BASE-T1 PHY standard which enables data between in-vehicle systems to be distributed over a flexible, low cost and high bandwidth network. In October 2015, Marvell introduced the 88Q2112 automotive Ethernet physical layer (PHY) transceiver, the industry’s first 1000BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHY transceiver based on the IEEE’s draft 1000BASE-T1 spec. Leveraging our advanced wireless and Ethernet technology solutions, the 1000BASE-T1 solution supports uncompressed HD video, ideal for distributing camera and sensor data in ADAS applications. In the infotainment space, gigabit Ethernet over a single unshielded twisted pair copper cable is a logical solution for transporting audio, video and voice data at a higher data rate and resolution. Marvell 的 88Q2112 PHY 收发器支持汽车制造商使用一台以太网交换机连接未来汽车中的多种高级功能。 Furthering our commitment to automotive innovation, in April 2016 we opened the Marvell Automotive Center of Excellence (ACE), a first-of-its-kind automotive networking technology development center. Located in Ettlingen, Germany, ACE aims to expand development and education efforts to advance the architecture of future connected, intelligent cars.
We showcased Marvell’s advanced auto connectivity solutions at the 2016 IEEE-SA Ethernet & IP @ Automotive Technology Day (E&IP@ATD) in Paris this past September, demonstrating how our technology supports multiple HD video streams with up to 4K resolution. Covering the exciting activities at E&IP@ATD, Tadashi Nezu of Nikkei wrote about our automotive connectivity leadership, noting that Marvell is rapidly coming to the forefront of the market. Nezu also lauded the Company for its early Ethernet development efforts, noting how Marvell quickly developed a solution compliant to the draft IEEE 802.3bp 1000BASE-T1 standard, before the specifications were even finalized.
Manfred Kunz, head of development at the ACE, spoke about automotive Ethernet security, while Christopher Mash, senior manager of automotive system architecture and field applications, co-presented with Bosch and Continental who shared their experience with the new 1000BASE-T1 technology.
The event was a success, drawing over 700 attendees, as well as speakers and exhibitors from over 20 countries. Automotive Ethernet Congress, Munich, Germany.
As automotive technological developments continue to advance rapidly and data continues to play a fundamental role in advancing the future of connected cars, we look forward to continue innovating and collaborating with our auto partners to further accelerate car connectivity.
As chips are becoming smaller and more powerful, the wireless audio market is continuing to rapidly grow. According to MarketsandMarkets, the wireless audio industry is expected to reach $54.07 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 23.2 percent between 2016 and 2022. High performance, low power wireless and Bluetooth/ Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) solutions have been key enablers of the growth of wireless audio, providing the technology for companies to develop connected audio solutions that have the throughput and range needed for high-resolution wireless, integrated with the extended battery life consumers expect for portable devices.
Marvell’s newest Avastar® wireless connectivity solutions make range limitations a thing of the past for many home and enterprise audio applications. Marvell’s high performance and low power Avastar combos incorporate Dynamic Multi-Hop Relay (DMHR) Technology to connect up to 15 devices in a daisy-chain fashion, extending the range of traditional Wi-Fi networks 15 times from 40m to almost 600m in a typical home. Additionally, Marvell has enabled other exciting features, such as connecting up to 31 clients to a speaker or sound bar which acts as a soft access point. Diagram showing a daisy-chain wireless audio setup
From portable speakers to advanced soundbar systems, Marvell’s advanced wireless technology is embedded in many of the most popular audio products on the market today. To learn more about Marvell’s wireless solutions, please visit: www.marvell.com/wireless. You can also read more about wireless trends and standards in my Q&A with Electronic Design’s Bill Wong http://electronicdesign.com/wifi/qa-what-s-new-wireless-audio-market.
We are only a couple of weeks into the New Year and already have a glimpse of how the industry will take shape in 2017 and beyond. It has been a ritual for the Marvell team, and most major players in the technology ecosystem, to start the first week of the year showcasing the cutting-edge solutions of today and tomorrow at CES. This year, the Las Vegas expo floor showed us that everyday objects, as well as cars, are getting smarter and are taking on new capabilities, signaling new demands for the industry to address.
Say “Hello” to the Car of the Future
Virtual Reality Wants to Get Real
The AI of Everything
Amid all of the hype around the technologies that took center stage at this year’s CES, it was clear that data remains at the heart of our connected world. With advancements in connectivity comes the explosion of digital traffic as data is created, accessed, stored and moved to the cloud by billions of connected devices, appliances, cars, enterprises and more. Autonomous cars, VR and AI all depend on high bandwidth video and data to deliver smart and seamless experiences for consumers. At CES Marvell demonstrated how we are enabling the ecosystem to overcome its toughest data storage and network bandwidth challenges with our advanced solutions for the cloud, automotive, industrial, enterprise and consumer markets. Our automotive Ethernet physical layer (PHY) transceiver provides the robust 1000BASE-T1 connectivity needed to distribute data between the multiple advanced in-vehicle systems of tomorrow’s cars.
As data is moved and stored from consumer devices to the cloud, data centers can take advantage of our support for a range of Ethernet technology speeds for even greater accessibility, including our Prestera® switches, Alaska® Ethernet transceivers and ARMADA® 64-bit ARM-based modular SoC families for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 25 GbE and 40 GbE. We also demonstrated at CES our recently announced 25GbE end-to-end data center solution which underscores our commitment to delivering high performance, cost-effective and energy-efficient computing solutions to keep up with today’s increasing bandwidth demands.
For whatever new demands and challenges the market brings in 2017, Marvell is on the Move. It has been a ritual for the Marvell team, and most major players in the technology ecosystem, to start the first week of the year showcasing the cutting-edge solutions of today and tomorrow at CES. This year, the Las Vegas expo floor showed us that everyday objects, as well as cars, are getting smarter and are taking on new capabilities, signaling new demands for the industry to address.
We pride ourselves on delivering innovative solutions to help our global customers store, move and access data—fast, securely, reliably and efficiently. In further recognition of our world-class technology, we are excited to share that The Linley Group, one of the most prominent semiconductor analyst firms, has selected Marvell’s ARMADA® SP (storage processor) as the Best Embedded Processor in its 2016 Analysts' Choice Awards.
Honoring the best and the brightest in semiconductor technology, the Analysts' Choice Awards recognize the solutions that deliver superior power, performance, features and pricing for their respective end applications and markets.
To learn more about Marvell’s SP solution, visit: http://www.marvell.com/storage/armada-sp/.
Innovation is the lifeblood of any technology organization.
Products change over time, but one thing Marvell has remained constant with is our commitment to innovation. That’s why we are so honored to be recognized this week as one of the Top 100 Global Innovators by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters. This is the fifth year Marvell has made this global “Who’s Who” list of innovators, and that’s thanks to every one of our 5,000 employees who put their ideas, energy and ingenuity to work here every day.
The award is based in part on global reach -- we hold more than 9,000 patents worldwide -- grant success rates and influence, and it serves as a testament to Marvell’s culture of innovation and commitment to providing differentiated, breakthrough technology solutions.
-- Wayne Gretzky
We do a lot to promote the great products we bring to market, but what doesn’t get said is how much work our engineers do with partners, standards committees, and in end markets to understand where markets are going, and how we can help our customers differentiate their solutions from the competition.
This innovation has been five years in the making, but because we understood autonomous driving would become a reality, we were able to work with standards groups and auto suppliers to create a new way to move sensor data throughout a car. As a result, we can provide the interoperability, performance, and scalability mainstream auto manufacturers need to build autonomous cars.
As you can imagine, there are thousands of others.
If this sounds like a place where you want to work, check out our careers page.
By Donna Yasay, VP of Worldwide Business Development, Marvell
You’ve seen it, the dreaded buffering while trying to stream a movie, lag times while gaming or dropped signals as you walk through your home. But all this is a thing of the past with the latest products based on Marvell’s Gigabit Home Networking (G.hn) Powerline Communications technology. Marvell G.hn chip sets combine powerline, coax, phone line/twisted pair and optical fiber in a single technology, which can turn a home’s electrical, coaxial and anywire smart grids into high-speed internet and connected devices.
Take for example the new line of ARRIS routers and extenders, the SURFboard® family of home networking devices with RipCurrent™ G.hn technology. This new system of routers and extenders, based on Marvell technology, is designed to eliminate the frustrations that have plagued home wireless as more and more family members use more and more devices. The RipCurrent-enabled routers and extenders use existing powerlines (electrical outlets) in the home to create new hotspots to connect high-bandwidth devices and relieve home Wi-Fi congestion.
Range is no longer an issue and interruptions become non-existent. (Where’s dad?
And while ARRIS International plc was the top cable modem retailer in 2016, they aren’t the only ones where Marvell G.hn Powerline is playing an integral role. Last summer, Comtrend, a leading designer and manufacturer of broadband communication equipment, launched its first G.hn powerline-only adapter in retail. G.hn offers the flexibility of providing high bandwidth for in-home networking using both a wired medium and wireless extender setting.
With no more dead zones, Marvell G.hn powerline technology is helping redefine home networking and improving the home Wi-Fi experience.
By Hunglin Hsu, Vice President, Digital IC Design, Marvell
FLC is an architecture that redefines memory on everything from data centers to wearables. FLC has the potential to spark the development of a new class of lower-cost and lower- power products and cut the DRAM needed in a system by as much as 10x, while cutting the energy consumed to about half what is used today. How? If you look at what’s actually being used on your computer or portable device, only a small percentage of the application code loaded into the main memory is usually active. Take a look for yourself. For example, look at the process monitor in Windows task manager. You will see that most of the applications are idle, yet in aggregate require a significant amount of DRAM space. In fact, nearly 90 to 99 percent of most DRAMs are idle.
And it works! Our engineering mobile phone platform, shown in this video, uses FLC to play back video smoothly, without any lag or stutter. App switching is also zippy. Such performance is common on mid- or even high-end phones with large DRAM, yet this design used only 768MB of DRAM in the implementation. Time-sensitive streams are mapped to a 512MB non-cacheable area, while another 256 DRAM is used in FLC to emulate 1GB of memory. Hence, it provides similar performance to 1.5GB of main memory in traditional DRAM-based designs. FLC can also emulate larger quantities of main memory. The second proof of concept demonstrates smooth video performance on the same mobile phone platform using FLC.
By offloading storage to cheaper SSD memory, the world can also dramatically reduce overall power consumption and energy needs. For example, a 50 percent reduction in all computer energy use equates to a two percent decrease in rural power needs. Battery life of laptops will be increased, as well as IoT devices that could last weeks before recharging. It changes the future of supercomputers as well. With FLC, you can replace an entire server room with a small portable device. Super computing and computational sets will become faster and more efficient, with future super computers containing tens of terabytes of memory instead of hundreds of gigabytes.
Marvell FLC will not only redefine memory--but all of computing.
See Marvell FLC in action in the following proof of concept videos:
By Zining Wu, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Marvell
Marvell Named a 2015 Top 100 Global Innovative Company by Thomson Reuters
Innovation at Marvell Starts at the Top
He fosters a climate for building, inventing and designing ICs and systems that push technology boundaries and help move the industry forward.
In general, the FLC architecture replaces a conventional DRAM main memory in a system with a high-speed DRAM cache and a solid-state drive (SSD) main memory.
Both architectures represent radical departures from the current convention and offer a means to drastically reduce system cost and power consumption of devices to enable affordable devices for the masses.
Ideas Are Encouraged at All Levels
While it starts at the top, innovation is a core value at Marvell - and the heart of innovation at Marvell lies with its people.
Formula for Success
The Thomson Reuters formula identifies companies around the world that are discovering new inventions and is based on four principle criteria: overall patent volume, patent application-to-grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio and patent influence as evidenced by citations.
Innovators descended on Austin, TX for the latest in technology, media, science, and education. The Kinoma team took to the SXSW trade show with a booth that invited all attendees to “Start Making.” Kinoma Create, the JavaScript-powered IoT construction kit, was enthusiastically received.
Internet of Things more of a ‘thing’ this year
Kinoma Create is today’s ideal IoT construction kit. An overwhelming impression from this year’s event is that the IoT is vastly more recognized now as a concept, and an opportunity to make our world smarter and more efficient. JavaScript as the language of IoT has been our passionate position from the start. The importance of this, too, was clearly more understood year-over-year.
Everything from NFC, CoAP, beacons, sensors, and ZigBee were used to connect and control robots, security systems, home automation, games, and more. Visits by luminaries of tech
Writer, speaker, futurist, design instructor, and SXSW regular Bruce Sterling stopped by our booth, taking in all the demos.
Austin, stay weird!
We will definitely be back to Austin for SXSW 2016. In the meantime, please connect with us at other upcoming conferences and trade shows in the remainder of this year.
Marvell 最近凭借“端到端供应商质量”，受到 Juniper 网络认可，荣获年度供应商大奖。 该奖项的授予对象是战略性供应商，表彰其在交付水平、对需求变动的响应时间和交付商品品质方面始终保持非常高的水准。 Juniper presented the award to Marvell on February 26 at Juniper’s Supplier Summit, held at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale.
在 Marvell，当我们设计最先进的系统单晶片 (SOC) 时，不论产品类别为何，都会用到这个恒定不变的准则。 In this case, highest performance, low power, small footprint and most efficient solutions have resulted in the Marvell 88PA6120 - an ink, thermal and color laser multifunction printer SoC that Prinics has selected for its newest mobile thermal photo printer dubbed the “best picture kit in my hand.” 新款 Prinics PicKit M1 是一款以电池为动力的手持型照片打印机，是全新乐趣产品的典型范例。 得益于集成的 NFC 和 WiFi 直连功能，PicKit M1 非常易于使用。 触碰操控任何一部有 NFC 功能的手机都可以进行控制，开启直观的 PicKit 应用程序并建立 WiFi 直接连接。 没有 NFC？ 没问题！ 只需手动开启应用程序即可。 从应用程序中，您可以选择手机中的任何照片进行打印。 一分钟后，您就拥有了一张高质量的 2.1”x 3.4” 照片，可以跟朋友分享。 手拿真实照片的乐趣是任何其他事物都无法比拟的！
Essentially, Marvell continues its involvement, award or no award, with the Wi-Fi alliance because we believe in the mission, and it provides the underlying technology that allows people to do great things -- fun things -- with their mobile devices. Whether it’s social media or socializing -- like sending selfies -- we want to do our part to ensure that today’s mobile to digital entertainment devices to tomorrow’s Internet of Things (IoT) work and work well together. 这就是 Marvell 持续努力发展的原因，不仅仅在自身技术方面，也致力解决行业层面的障碍，以便用户可以无忧无虑地享受他们的技术设备。
其中一大趋势就是超高清或 4K 电视平台。 根据 CNET 的定义，超高清的分辨率优于高清，目前通常指水平分辨率为 3840 像素，垂直分辨率为 2160 像素。 This is four times the resolution of 1080p, which is 1,920x1,080. Officially, Ultra HD is a minimum of 3,820x2,160, also known as Quad HD. It also includes cinema 4K (4,096x2,160) and future resolutions like "8K," or 7,680x 4,320.
除了互联照明外，这一可扩展平台还将同样的嵌入式技术加入到了各类传感器中，例如能够检测门窗开闭、整个房屋中的运动、漏水等的传感器，从而能够以更低的成本为最终用户提供一套直接向移动设备报告的安全系统。 想象一下有一种传感器技术，只要家中有任何地方漏水，就会提醒您。 （您家的热水管通常什么时候会损坏？ 当然是在您度假的时候！） These are just a few examples of how IoT is at work in lighting and home automation to add conveniences to your life - that you never knew you missed.
On Tuesday, Sept. 2nd Marvell’s executive team traveled to New York to ring the NASDAQ opening bell in Times Square. 总裁兼联合创始人 Weili Dai 发表了一场充满激情的开场白，谈到了我们致力为实现“美满互联、品“智”生活”而持续创新。 对于 Marvell 来说，这是载入史册的一天，也是我们与全球 7,000 位员工共同回首，细数我们自 1995 年成立以来所取得的成就的一次良机。 Following the ringing of the bell, Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai, Sukhi Nagesh and Mike Rashkin met with main stream media resulting in the report titled, “Marvell Hopes to Ride LTE Wave, Beat Broadcom, and Scoop up the Storage Market.”
为何这点如此重要？ 因为该设备将不具备等比级数的力量。 Visualize this for a moment--if I were to take a piece of paper and tear it in two… and then if I were to place the two halves on top of each other… and then if I were to repeat the process… I would produce a stack of paper that is now four times the thickness of the original, correct?
现今有少数公司（和未来新兴的更多公司）有能力即时实现并将相对存在的概念带入现实生活中，借之为客户和产业实现所有事物的连接性。 这些为数不多的企业包括：Apple、Google、Cisco、IBM、Blackberry，以及 Amazon 和 Facebook。 上一次我提到了 Apple Home Kit。 Apple 推出 HomeKit in iOS 8，这个新框架提供一种通用协议，可以简化家庭内设备的设置并实现通讯，包括与 Siri 的集成。 Marvell 的物联网芯片组和 EZ-Connect SDK 现支持 HomeKit，并让设备制造商的集成工作更加简单，以便其帮助客户在整个家庭范围内增强安全配对和控制设备的能力。
Since that time, Google I/O Nest officially announced a new Google Nest developer program and API that will allow other companies' smart devices to communicate with Nest's Protect smoke alarm and Learning Thermostat. 很多高端第三方开发者，如 Whirlpool、Chamberlain、Jawbone 和 Mercedes-Benz 已使用这些 API 开发出一些非常有趣的用例。 在 Apple 和 Google 专注于消费者物联网应用的同时，Blackberry 的新 Project Ion 则更加关注物联网的企业和工业应用。
Ion 充分利用 Blackberry 移动设备管理平台，目标是当企业和工业的所有方面都使用连通的数据收集设备时，帮助其获取全新类型的深刻见解。 它也将有助于在合作伙伴、运营商和应用程序开发者之间建立关系。 Apple 的 HomeKit、Google 的 Nest Labs，以及 Blackberry 的 Project Ion，都是实现联网事物间相对存在的平台例证。
所以当我们再回顾之前的绝对物联网案例，如果这些公司吸引到一个开发者社群，并为 API 分配权限，就可以访问门禁、恒温器、照明灯泡和车库开门器。. 它开启了一个全新的世界，充满相对性和关联性可能带来的各种选项。 家中的“智能设备”会对您的动作所触发的事件做出反应。 应用程序开发人员或设备生产商可以创造“场景”并将其与产品相结合。 例如，一个汽车制造商可以利用地理围栏算法，在汽车的操作系统中以应用程序的形式运行，在它“感觉”到您下班或办完事要回家时，可以在离家还有五英里远的时候，开启家中的空调。 它会在您到达家附近的时候，打开门廊灯，并在随后接近车库通道时，开启车库门。 然后在您手里提着大包小包走向前门的时候，大门会感应到您智能手机的出现，自动开锁。
我相信首先必须有一个强大的物联网生态系统，将其装备完成，随时可应对大规模采用的加速进行。 这个生态系统将为开发社区和最终用户驱动和塑造整个行业。 In fact, the connected devices industry was just given a big boost recently with Apple's introduction of HomeKit in iOS 8. HomeKit 是个新框架，提供一种通用协议，可以简化家庭内设备的设置并实现通讯，包括与 Siri 的集成。
Marvell recently unveiled a new wireless product family, the Marvell's EZ-Connect™ software platform, which features the Marvell® MW300 Wi-Fi microcontroller, the MB300 Bluetooth microcontroller, and the MZ100 ZigBee microcontroller. Marvell MW300 现支持 HomeKit，并让设备制造商的集成工作更加简单，以便其帮助客户在整个家庭范围内增强安全配对和控制设备的能力。 关于 Marvell MW300 的详细信息公布于本期新闻发布之中。
Powered by the Marvell® Bravera™ SC5 controller, Memblaze developed the PBlaze 7 7940 GEN5 SSD family, delivering an impressive 2.5 times the performance and 1.5 times the power efficiency compared to conventional PCIe 4.0 SSDs and ~55/9us read/write latency1. This makes the SSD ideal for business-critical applications and high-performance workloads like machine learning and cloud computing. In addition, Memblaze utilized the innovative sustainability features of Marvell’s Bravera SC5 controllers for greater resource efficiency, reduced environmental impact and streamlined development efforts and inventory management.
HPE GreenLake for Block Storage powered by Alletra Storage MP
At this weeks’ Leading Lights Awards Ceremony, hosted by Light Reading, Editor-in-Chief Phil Harvey announced that the Marvell® Deneb™ Coherent Digital Signal Processor (CDSP) is the winner of the Most Innovative Service Provider Transport Solution category. This recognition is awarded to the optical systems vendor or optical components vendor providing the most innovative optical transport solution for service provider customers.
Marvell 今日宣布成功完成对 Aquantia公司的收购。
Monday, August 26, marked the anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment being signed into law and granting American women the constitutional right to vote. 为了纪念即将到来的百年庆典，硅谷领导力集团启组织了一系列活动，向女性开拓者致敬，并号召各行业的女性杰出人物能积极参与。 在 Marvell 围绕多样性和平等而构建的核心价值观中，赋予女性杰出人物权力对 Marvell 及其高管团队来说非常重要，公司也成为了周一活动的荣誉赞助商。
除提高 DPDK 性能（高达双向 36Mpp ）以外，还支持 SR-IOV、TCP/IP 无状态卸载、IEEE 1588 时间戳等等。
尽管大规模采用 RoCE 并非不可能，但需要实施额外的流量拥堵控制机制，例如数据中心量化拥堵通知 (DCQCN)，而这反过来又要求配备大量经验丰富的网络工程师与管理员。 虽然超大规模客户有能力实现以上要求，但并非所有企业客户都具备这样的实力。 小规模企业的人力资源和财务预算会受到更多限制。
借助 HPE ProLiant、Apollo、HPE Synergy 和 HPE Cloudline 服务器中启用了 RDMA 的适配器，Marvell 打造出了一系列 10Gb 或 25GbE 数据中心连接解决方案产品组合。 除了支持低延迟 RDMA 外，以上适配器还支持 NVMe。 这意味着以上适配器能够适应于运行 RoCE 或 iWARP 的以太网光纤中的 NVMe，同时也支持基于 TCP 的 NVMe（即没有 RDMA）。 这为当今的数据中心在面对未来的工作负荷时提供了充分的选择。
The consumer drone market has expanded greatly over the last few years, with almost 3 million units shipped during 2017. 这种上升趋势很可能继续持续。 据分析公司 Statista 预测，至 2020 年，商用无人机业务的市场规模将达 64 亿美元。另外，据 Global Market Insights 预测，全球无人机市场的整体规模到 2020 年将增长至 170 亿美元（其中消费类别占 90 亿美元）。 目前市场上已经有了非常多款型的无人机，而且新产品还在不断涌入，所以，新产品是否具有差异性对于其在市场上获得成功至关重要。
出人意料的想法，从而产生让人喜出望外的发现和成果。
全球科技领域的主要代表上周齐聚圣何塞会展中心，共同谛听今年年度电子创新 (ACE) 大奖花落谁家。 此项久负盛名的赛事由杰出的电子工程杂志 EDN 和 EE Times 共同组织，重点奖励过往 12 个月推向市场的非常具有创新品质的产品，以及非常具有前瞻意识的高层领导和非常有潜力的创业公司。 由杂志的编辑团队和多位备受尊敬的独立评委组成的评审团，将参与选择每个分类的大奖得主。
Marvell 于今年早些时候推出的 88NV1160 高性能控制器用于非易失性存储器 (NVMe)，该产品击败 Diodes Inc. 和 Cypress 半导体公司等生产的强劲竞争产品，赢得梦寐以求的逻辑/接口/内存类大奖。 Marvell gained two further nominations at the awards - with 98PX1012 Prestera PX Passive Intelligent Port Extender (PIPE) also being featured in the Logic/Interface/Memory category, while the 88W8987xA automotive wireless combo SoC was among those cited in the Automotive category. 
"We're excited to honor this robust group for their dedication to their craft and efforts in bettering the industry for years to come," said Nina Brown, Vice President of Events at UBM Americas. "The judging panel was given the difficult task of selecting winners from an incredibly talented group of finalists and we'd like to thank all of those participants for their amazing work and also honor their achievements. These awards aim to shine a light on the best in today's electronics realm and this group is the perfect example of excellence within both an important and complex industry." 
Marvell kicked off OCP with two speaking sessions from its leading technologists. Yaniv Kopelman, Networking CTO of the Networking Group, presented "Extending the Lifecycle of 3.2T Switches,” a discussion on the concept of port extender technology and how to apply it to future data center architecture. Michael Zimmerman, vice president and general manager of the Networking Group, then spoke on "Modular Networking" and teased Marvell's first modular solution based on port extender technology. 
Automotive Ethernet Congress, Munich, Germany.
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回顾这个区域的历史，会发觉它成为激发灵感、孕育文化的摇篮并不奇怪，有一天，开创未来的先进技术将从车库、大学宿舍，甚至厨房灶台应运而生，全盘改变人们的生活。 硅谷自身的历史开始于一间车库，两名斯坦福大学的毕业生 William Hewlett 和 David Packard 将在稍后的 1939 年创立 Hewlett-Packard 公司。 随后的十年间，企业家和科学家纷至沓来，在圣克拉拉山谷探索无线电、军事和电子技术，为未来打下坚实的基础，使其成为科技创新的温床。
到 1953 年，有名的科技公司开始正式在圣克拉拉山谷占据一席之地，在斯坦福工业园购置地产，随后不久，该区域的一家半导体公司于 1956 年成立。 贯穿整个 1960 年代的是如火如荼的太空竞赛，整个国家都高度关注针对高级芯片 (silicon) 技术的强烈需求，而这个山谷开始逐渐成为国家高精尖技术发展的中心。 由于园区的芯片公司数量众多，而且人们对于半导体行业越来越重视，该区域最终正式命名为“硅谷”(Silicon Valley)，于 1971 年在一系列 Electronic News 的报道中公开使用。
Diagram showing a daisy-chain wireless audio setup 
We are only a couple of weeks into the New Year and already have a glimpse of how the industry will take shape in 2017 and beyond. It has been a ritual for the Marvell team, and most major players in the technology ecosystem, to start the first week of the year showcasing the cutting-edge solutions of today and tomorrow at CES. This year, the Las Vegas expo floor showed us that everyday objects, as well as cars, are getting smarter and are taking on new capabilities, signaling new demands for the industry to address.
At CES Marvell demonstrated how we are enabling the ecosystem to overcome its toughest data storage and network bandwidth challenges with our advanced solutions for the cloud, automotive, industrial, enterprise and consumer markets. Our automotive Ethernet physical layer (PHY) transceiver provides the robust 1000BASE-T1 connectivity needed to distribute data between the multiple advanced in-vehicle systems of tomorrow’s cars. 
We pride ourselves on delivering innovative solutions to help our global customers store, move and access data—fast, securely, reliably and efficiently. In further recognition of our world-class technology, we are excited to share that The Linley Group, one of the most prominent semiconductor analyst firms, has selected Marvell’s ARMADA® SP (storage processor) as the Best Embedded Processor in its 2016 Analysts' Choice Awards. 
Innovation is the lifeblood of any technology organization. 
G.hn offers the flexibility of providing high bandwidth for in-home networking using both a wired medium and wireless extender setting. 
How? If you look at what’s actually being used on your computer or portable device, only a small percentage of the application code loaded into the main memory is usually active. Take a look for yourself. For example, look at the process monitor in Windows task manager. You will see that most of the applications are idle, yet in aggregate require a significant amount of DRAM space. In fact, nearly 90 to 99 percent of most DRAMs are idle. 
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED WI-FI Aware 是一个新的认证计划，旨在实现此前称为“周边感知联网”(NAN) 的新 Wi-Fi 功能。 Wi-Fi Aware 实现了一项独特的点对点技术，它不需要实时连接到 Wi-Fi 基础设施、服务器、GPS 或其他地理定位，而是使用直接的设备对设备 Wi-Fi 去查找和交换信息。 它让设备在实现连接以前，就可以查找附近的信息和服务。 Wi-Fi Aware 让社交/本地/移动应用程序作用更加强大、更加个性化，而且在拥挤的环境中也能正常运行。 而且其设计的功耗非常低。
Innovators descended on Austin, TX for the latest in technology, media, science, and education. The Kinoma team took to the SXSW trade show with a booth that invited all attendees to “Start Making.” Kinoma Create, the JavaScript-powered IoT construction kit, was enthusiastically received.
Visits by luminaries of tech
Marvell 最近凭借“端到端供应商质量”，受到 Juniper 网络认可，荣获年度供应商大奖。 该奖项的授予对象是战略性供应商，表彰其在交付水平、对需求变动的响应时间和交付商品品质方面始终保持非常高的水准。 Juniper presented the award to Marvell on February 26 at Juniper’s Supplier Summit, held at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale. 
图片中由左至右： Marty Garvin（Juniper 全球供应管理高级副总裁）、Robyn Denholm（Juniper 首席财务和运营官，执行副总裁）、Rami Rahim（Juniper 首席执行官）、Michael Zimmerman（Marvell CSIBU 副总裁兼总经理）、Sean Keohane（Marvell 销售副总裁）、Steve Dansey（Marvell CSIBU 业务运营副总裁）
新款 Prinics PicKit M1 是一款以电池为动力的手持型照片打印机，是全新乐趣产品的典型范例。 得益于集成的 NFC 和 WiFi 直连功能，PicKit M1 非常易于使用。 触碰操控任何一部有 NFC 功能的手机都可以进行控制，开启直观的 PicKit 应用程序并建立 WiFi 直接连接。 没有 NFC？ 没问题！ 只需手动开启应用程序即可。 从应用程序中，您可以选择手机中的任何照片进行打印。 一分钟后，您就拥有了一张高质量的 2.1”x 3.4” 照片，可以跟朋友分享。 手拿真实照片的乐趣是任何其他事物都无法比拟的！
Linley Group 公布其年度分析师选择奖得主，Marvell 很荣幸分享大奖新闻：Marvell Prestera® 98DX4251 获选成为 2014 年杰出网络芯片。 Marvell Prestera 98DX4251 是 Marvell 的下一代数据包处理器，其设计专为支持实现性能和成本优化的解决方案，适合服务提供商和园区环境中的广泛平台。
Marvell 对赞助 Garage@Connect 深感自豪，Garage@Connect 是本次活动中的一项计划，皆在展示创业公司及其崭新的产品概念。 Peter 向参会者介绍了 Garage@Connect，并鼓励参会者将技术创新的故事地点 - 仓库想象成一种精神状态，而不仅仅是一个实际场所。
Kinoma Create 的启动也引起了媒体的关注，Marvell 在活动期间接受了数次媒体采访。
足球和秋季电视季即将到来，许多人想着守在电视机前等待再次开始观看他们非常喜爱的节目。 但服务提供商和多系统运营商 (MSO) 为用户准备了哪些节目内容？推动下个秋季或下下个秋季的崭新电视趋势的又是什么技术？
想象一下，未来家中的灯光能够预知你的心情。 不喜欢早起？ 没问题。 灯光在早晨会设置为弱光，并随着时间的推移逐渐增加亮度，像日出一样自然地唤醒你。 随着一天时间的继续，不需要用到灯光的房间中的灯光就会熄灭，为您节省电费开销。 想要开始看电影了？ 灯光会自动熄灭。 想要开一场派对？ 为户外活动定制主题，例如万圣节用橙色，圣诞节用绿色和红色。 下班回家后，灯会沿着街道一路感应您的智能手机，并打开户外灯照亮您回家的路。 室内灯也会根据您的需要安全且方便地依次亮起。 劳累的一天结束后，灯光会自动关闭，不用担心因为忘记关灯而再次起床。 想要在外出度假前把灯光设置成好像主人还在家的样子吗？ 还是想要在不记得有没有把家里的灯全部关闭时也能远程关灯？ 当照明成为物联网 (IoT) 的一部分时，所有这一切都可能实现。
