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Marvell () is an American producer of storage, communications and consumer semiconductor products. Their products can be found in a range of applications: Founded in 1995, Marvell has more than 3400 employees and continues to grow. Marvell has design centers in Aliso Viejo, Colorado, Maryland, San Diego and Santa Clara. Outside the US, Marvell has design centers in Germany, Israel, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan as well as numerous worldwide sales offices. Key Marvell partners include: Alcatel, Arima, Asus, Cisco Systems, Compal, D-Link, Elitegroup Computer Systems, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Gateway, Gigabyte Technology, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Huawei, Intel, Inventec, LG, Linksys, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, MSI, NEC, NETGEAR, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Panasonic, Quanta Computers, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, VTech and Western Digital.
Purchase of Intels XScale Business On June 27, 2006, the sale of Intel's XScale assets was announced. Intel agreed to sell the XScale business to Marvell for an estimated $600 million in cash and the assumption of unspecified liabilities. Marvell vs. Free software In October 2006, Marvell came under attention for not releasing appropriate specifications of their hardware that would make it possible for the open source community to guarantee lifetime support of Marvell's wireless devices in the One Laptop Per Child programme. Marvell's strategy was highly disapproved by Richard Stallman of Free Software Foundation and Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD. As a result of previous policies and of this very encounter, Marvell is said to be a company with an unusually poor record of supporting free operating systems. * | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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