Marvell’s ARM-based chips get into a couple of high-profile Smart TV gadgets

Marvell's ARM-based Armada chips are used in the Lenovo TV and the Netgear NeoTV Prime with Google TV.

Chip maker Marvell must pay over $1B in Carnegie Mellon patent case

Marvell Technology Group, best known for making chips for a wide variety of devices, is in hot water with Carnegie Mellon University

Will ARM become more powerful than Intel by using less power? (interview)

Intel and ARM are fighting the world war of the chip market. The battle is playing out in servers, smartphones, tablets and PCs.

ARM-based OpenStack: it’s like an army of cell phones powering cloud-based computing

RackSpace, HP, Canonical, and other OpenStack members are combining forces to build what they say will be the first-ever ARM processor-based cloud. The goal is to build an extremely efficient, powerful, but inexpensive cloud with low power consumption.

“The explosion …

OnLive, Marvell seeding cloud gaming on Google TVs

OnLive says its focus is "to make the highest quality gaming accessible to everyone, anywhere, and anytime they want it."

Quantenna raises astounding $79M round so you can have wire-like wireless networks

Based on conventional wisdom, Quantenna shouldn’t exist as a startup maker of Wi-fi chips. It has huge competitors among chipmakers Broadcom, Marvell, and Qualcomm-Atheros. But Quantenna is announcing a gargantuan $79 million funding round today because it has figured out …

Marvell launches new chips for smartphones in emerging markets

 

 

Marvell is showing off a bunch of new chips for smartphones, smart TVs, networking, and other gear at the Mobile World Congress event this week. Among the new products is the world’s first TD-HSPA+ modem chip for smartphones …

Hands-on demo of second-generation Google TV (video)

Smart TVs were plentiful at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, and Google TV appeared in a number of them, including models from LG and Sony.

With its second run at web-connected TVs, Google’s grand plan is to disrupt entertainment …

Hands-on with the One Laptop per Child XO 3.0 tablet (video)

Of the major products unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, one of the most promising was the new  education tablet from One Laptop per Child. The nonprofit group, which has teamed up on the tablet design with Marvell, …

Marvell’s Smile Plug will let teachers run their own classroom wireless networks

Chip maker Marvell is announcing its Smile Plug development kit aimed at turning classrooms into much better computer learning environments.

To be unveiled this week at the Consumer Electronics Show today, the Smile Plug is part of Marvell’s larger “Classroom …

Marvell processor fuels the latest One Laptop per Child XO 3.0 tablet

Marvell is announcing today that its technology will be used in the next version of the One Laptop per Child education tablet.

Unveiled today at the Consumer Electronics Show‘s opening press reception, the OLPC XO 3.0 tablet is the latest …

Google TV’s second wind: New devices coming from LG, Samsung, Vizio and Sony

As expected, Google TV will get a big shot in the arm at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

LG, Vizio, and Sony will be announcing new Google TV devices at CES, while Samsung will announce its products …

Marvell supplies the brains for the second-generation Google TV box

Marvell‘s Armada family of chips will provide the brains for the second-generation Google TV set-top box for connected TVs, the company said today.

The new box, which was announced in October and will be on display next week at the …

Broadcom breaks into top five for smartphone chip suppliers

Broadcom is now one of the top five suppliers of chips for smartphones, according to a third quarter report by market research firm Strategy Analytics.

The Irvine, Calif.-based chip maker joins Qualcomm, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Marvell as one of …