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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Marvell Enters Futuremark Benchmark Development Programs
Saratoga, CA - December 20, 2006 --
The world's leading developer of system performance-analysis software
and services for smartphones and handheld devices, Futuremark
Corporation, announced today that Marvell(r) (NASDAQ: MRVL) is joining
its handheld focused benchmark development programs. Marvell has
enrolled in Futuremark's Handheld BDP, VGMark BDP, and has licensed
Futuremark's recently announced SimulationMark ES2.0 benchmark.
"Joining our handheld benchmark development programs is a logical
decision for Marvell. This world leading semiconductor company
specializes in solutions that drive the future of handheld products"
said Oliver Baltuch, Futuremark's VP of Sales and Marketing, North
America. "Our handheld BDPs and benchmarks will provide accurate
performance data at every stage of their development, yielding better
performing products and technologies for their enterprise customers
and the consumer market."
"Marvell is pleased to use Futuremark's suite of performance analysis
tools for our platform development benchmarking projects for our newly
launched Marvell PXA3xx application processors," stated Gary Forni,
Director of Platform Enabling, Cellular and Handheld Business Unit,
Communications and Consumer Business Group at Marvell.
Marvell is an industry leader in storage, communications and consumer
silicon solutions, with products found in an array of digital consumer
appliances and enterprise networks. Marvell has a history of
developing innovative market-leading technologies that power a vast
range of consumer electronics critical to the connectivity backbone
of today's digital lifestyle. Marvell's diverse product portfolio
includes enterprise and consumer level solutions that are very
influential in today's
communications infrastructure.
Futuremark Corporation has created a family of industry standard
handheld platform test suites which enable the full spectrum of
companies in the delivery chain to properly validate their products'
and technologies' performance. 3DMarkMobile06 is the OpenGL(r) ES 1.0
and 1.1 graphics performance gauge. SPMarkJava06 is an extensive
Mobile Java MIDP 2.0 and JSR184/M3G performance measurement tool.
VGMark07 provides vector graphics performance measurement.
SimulationMark ES2.0 enables pre-silicon performance testing of
OpenGL(r) ES 2.0 designs.
About Futuremark(r) Corporation
Futuremark (r) Corporation is the leading provider of performance
analysis software and services for PCs and smartphones. Futuremark(r)
is known around the world for its benchmark products, including the
3DMark(r) and PCMark(r) Series, SPMark(tm) and VGMark (tm) (with more
than 30 million copies distributed worldwide) and value-added services
powered by a database of over 14 million real life benchmarking
results. Futuremark(r) maintains offices in Saratoga, California
and Helsinki, Finland. For more information, please visit
http://www.futuremark.com.
About Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
Marvell (NASDAQ: Marvell) is the leader in development of storage,
communications and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse
product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications
controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire
communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home, and
storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers
to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries, including
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (MSI), Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (MAPL),
Marvell Japan K.K., Marvell Taiwan Ltd., Marvell International Ltd.
(MIL), Marvell U.K. Limited, Marvell Semiconductor Israel Ltd. (MSIL),
RADLAN Computer Communications Ltd., and SysKonnect GmbH. MSI is
headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and designs, develops and
markets products on behalf of MIL and MAPL. MSI may be contacted at
408-222-2500 or at www.Marvell.com.
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