SANTA CLARA, Calif. and IRVINE, Calif. -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) and Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), global leaders in storage technology, today announced that the two companies have achieved a significant milestone in their decade-long business relationship with WD having shipped more than one billion hard disk drives with Marvell chips. From 2001 through 2008, Marvell's cumulative shipments to WD were more than 400 million units. However, from 2008 to 2012, to date, Marvell's shipments to WD have increased significantly, now totaling over one billion units since 2001. This has resulted in a multitude of highly successful products across mobile, desktop and enterprise platforms which has contributed to WD's emergence as the industry leader in technology, quality, reliability and performance.

The WD-Marvell relationship has evolved from discrete read channel and controller solutions in PATA drives to highly integrated SATA- and SAS-based SoCs. Marvell is now shipping its 8th generation SATA SoC solution to WD including innovations such as LDPC. WD and Marvell are continuing their successful collaboration to deliver next-generation storage solutions across a broad spectrum of applications and emerging technologies.

"Marvell continues to deliver high performance silicon products on a consistent basis, which is helping us succeed in the highly competitive hard disk drive storage industry," said Rubik Babakanian, WD's Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer. "We are pleased to achieve this significant milestone with Marvell and are confident that our recently expanded technological partnership with and commitment from Marvell will be mutually beneficial as we bring new advanced storage products to the market."

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: MRVL)