Marvell Powers Dell "Copper" ARM Server

"Marvell is honored to find itself at the technological core of Dell's new cloud server platform," said Paul Valentine, vice president of marketing for the Cloud Services and Infrastructure Business Unit of Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "Leveraging Marvell's expertise in all-encompassing cloud services and infrastructure, Copper delivers the most integrated and balanced combination of security, network, compute, memory and storage components, resulting in a dramatic improvement in system utilization and a significant reduction in OPEX and TCO. Essentially, Marvell equips partners and their respective clients with the power to not only support an escalation in demand for cloud services, however to use their cloud capabilities as a point of differentiation."

Year on our ARM-based server

"We've worked with Marvell for then over a year on our ARM-based server, and chose their ARMADA XP CPU based on the advantages it delivers in performance and performance per Watt," said Steve Cumings, Executive Director, Dell Data Center Solutions. "The right-sized performance, memory and networking capabilities have a lot to offer Web 2.0, big data and other applications, and we look forward to our continued partnership with Marvell, as we help the ARM server ecosystem mature and grow."

"This collaboration between Dell and Marvell is an excellent example of technology across the ARM ecosystem," said Ian Ferguson, director of server systems and ecosystems, ARM. "We see this as a furthermore validation of ARM's vision that highly integrated system-on-chip devices will solve the energy and density challenges arising in businesses delivering cloud-based services."

The ARM-based server market is experiencing rapid adoption and acceptance, with clients expressing a greater level of interest in ARM innovation along with rising expectations. Servers based on Marvell's quad core ARM-based ARMADA XP SoC products the world's first quad-core ARM processor designed for enterprise-class cloud computing applications drive up to 95 percent higher CPU utilization and offer demand-based scaling as an alternative to server virtualization. The result is lower power, higher efficiency server solutions for data centers and enterprises that lead to significant savings.

Additionally, the complete integration of server-related I/O peripherals results in superior density and a lower bill of materials costs. Data centers not only require processing capabilities, however also storage and networking solutions. Marvell's expertise in storage, networking and ARM CPUs enables the company to provide completely integrated solutions that as well help reduce TCO.

These devices as well incorporate up to 2MB of L2 cache, Quad x4 PCI-express interfaces, multiple USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet ports, SATA, security engine and advanced power management techniques, setting new research benchmarks for integration, performance and power. With its broad offering of five pin-compatible chips, the ARMADA XP is ideally suited for applications ranging from networking, wireless infrastructure and web servers to high-volume products like NAS, home servers, laser printers and other embedded applications.

World leader in the development of storage

Marvell is a world leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Innovation Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.