Date: 10/09/2009

Marvell lauds China opportunities for its future growth

Marvell praises its collaboration with China Mobile, for establishing successful partnership in developing Google Android based smartphones using Marvell chips.

China Mobile employs Marvell's new PXA920, the first single-chip solution in its mass-market TD-SCDMA smartphone called OPhone. The Marvell PXA920 features dedicated high performance ARM instruction set compliant Sheeva processor and an integrated release 7 (TD-SCDMA, TD-HSDPA, TD-HSUPA) TD-SCDMA baseband and a China Mobile proven EDGE modem.

"China Mobile Research Institute believes that the OPhone platform operating on the Marvell PXA920 will catalyze the hyper-growth of TD-SCDMA smartphones as it provides a powerful combination of value-added services on a feature rich, high performance and highly affordable platform. We believe that the PXA920 solution will help us realize China Mobile's vision of sub-1000 RMB TD OPhones in the near future," said Bill Huang general manager of China Mobile Research Institute. "Marvell has worked with us from the start of the PXA920 program and we are excited by the rapid progress we have made towards realizing this milestone. China Mobile will work closely with Marvell and handset eco-system partners to deploy the PXA920 and we look forward to the rapid launch of next generation TD-SCDMA OPhones based on the Marvell PXA920."

Marvell states, China Mobile's new OPhone lineup not only has the mobile phone world buzzing, it has the global electronics industry watching the emergence of a significant new player in chip making.

"The launch of the OPhone reflects the success of Marvell's long term commitment to China," said Weili Dai, Marvell's co-founder and vice president and general manager of the company's Consumer and Computing Business Unit "Marvell has a deep belief in China Mobile and in the China market, and Marvell is proud to help bring the TD-SCDMA standard to wider adoption in the marketplace."