17 Facts About Marvell Technology

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Marvell Technology, Inc is an American company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, which develops and produces semiconductors and related technology.

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Marvell Technology was founded in 1995 by Dr Sehat Sutardja, his wife Weili Dai, and brother Pantas Sutardja.

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In July 2016, Marvell Technology appointed Matt Murphy as its new President and CEO.

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On July 6, 2018, Marvell Technology completed its acquisition of Cavium, Inc On the same day, it announced the appointment of Syed Ali, Brad Buss (director of Cavium, Inc ) and Edward Frank (director of Cavium, Inc ) to the Marvell Technology Board of Directors.

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Marvell Technology offered Customer Specific Standard Product, where customer accelerators and interefaces could be integrated directly into Marvell Technology's Octeon processors.

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On November 12, 2019, Marvell Technology announced that their ThunderX2 SoCs have been deployed on Microsoft Azure.

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On March 2, 2020, Marvell Technology announced OCTEON Fusion and OCTEON TX2 5G infrastructure processors, as well as deals to provide processors for 5G Infrastructure for Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson, ZTE, and Samsung.

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On March 16, 2020, Marvell Technology announced ThunderX3 and their plan for ThunderX4 in 2022.

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Marvell Technology's security-related products include their LiquidSecurity HSM Adapters and NITROX Cryptographic Offload Engines.

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Marvell Technology's products include SSD Controllers, HDD Controllers, HDD Preamplifiers, Storage Accelerators, and QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters and Controllers.

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On May 27, 2021, Marvell Technology announced its first NVM Express SSD controllers to support PCI Express 5.

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12.

Marvell Technology supplied the Wi-Fi chip for the original Apple iPhone.

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13.

Marvell Technology restated its financial results, and stated that Dai will no longer be executive vice president, chief operating officer, and a director but continue with the company in a non-management position.

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Marvell Technology agreed to pay a $10 million fine in 2008, but did not fire Dai nor replace Sutardja as chairman as stated by the investigating committee.

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In December 2012, a Pittsburgh jury ruled that Marvell had infringed two patents by incorporating hard disk technology developed and owned by Carnegie Mellon University without a license.

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Post-trial hearings were scheduled for May 2013 and Marvell Technology reported to be considering an appeal in the interim.

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On February 17, 2016, Marvell Technology agreed to a settlement in which Marvell Technology will pay Carnegie Mellon University $750, 000, 000.

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