BEIJING -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced that ASUS has chosen Marvell as a strategic partner to launch a new series of TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) smartphones in China. ASUS' new T10 and T20 series smartphones are powered by Marvell(R) PXA920 platform, the first commercially available single-chip solution which supports China Mobile's latest version of OPhone OMS system.
"I am proud of the leading role Marvell has played in the development of the TD-SCDMA standard, and I am particularly excited to see the launch of the ASUS TD smartphone with the addition of mobile gaming and mobile TV features all in one device - a true breakthrough in mobile telephone technology," said Weili Dai, Marvell's Co-Founder. "The ASUS smartphones are powered by Marvell's PXA920 platform, the industry's first single-chip TD-SCDMA solution: a tiny chip which delivers gigahertz speed, dynamic multimedia for mobile TV, live video, gaming and many exciting new applications, all to be unified by Marvell's beautiful and easy-to-use Kinoma(R) software experience. I believe the ASUS TD smartphones will be just the beginning of mass deployment of cost effective, advanced TD-SCDMA-based smartphones throughout China."
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: MRVL)