Marvell Introduces Plug Computing to Europe

SheevaPlug Now Available to Developers in Europe; Ecosystem Partners Commit to
Retail Products for Consumers

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL),
a leader in storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions, today
announced that developers in Europe can now purchase SheevaPlug(TM)
development kits, outfitted for regional electrical specifications, through
www.plugcomputer.org from Ionics EMS, Inc. and Globalscale Technologies. In
addition to broadening the outreach to application developers, Marvell is
growing the plug computing ecosystem by working with retail vendors such as
BUFFALO INC., D-Link, LaCie and Seagate, who plan to launch retail versions of
the plug computer for the consumer market.

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"The Plug Computer is one of the more amazing technologies that have come out
this decade and it has the potential to change the world," said Rob Enderle,
Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group. "The open plug platform gives
European developers the opportunity to create applications, services, and
solutions that are only limited by their imaginations."

Marvell introduced the Plug Computing initiative to make high-performance,
always on, always connected, and environmentally friendly computing readily
available for developers and end-users. A Plug Computer is small enough to
plug directly into a wall socket and is designed to draw so little power that
it can be left on all of the time. Unlike other embedded devices in the home,
it contains a gigahertz class processor that is designed to offer PC class
performance.

"The wide range of applications created from the open-developer SheevaPlug
platform serves both retail product partners and service providers," said Dr.
Simon Milner, Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Business
Unit, Consumer and Communications Business Group at Marvell Semiconductor.
"We are thrilled to introduce SheevaPlug to the European developer community
and look forward to seeing many new applications and new consumer product
ideas developed and brought to market. Moreover, Marvell is delighted to
collaborate with retail partners such as BUFFALO INC., D-Link, LaCie and
Seagate on delivering new levels of user experience to consumers."

The plug computing ecosystem is rapidly expanding to include a full value
chain of product partners, application developers and educational
institutions. A full list of ecosystem partners is available at
www.marvell.com.

About the SheevaPlug Development Platform
The SheevaPlug development platform uses a Marvell Kirkwood(TM) processor
based on an embedded 1.2GHz Sheeva(TM) CPU equipped with 512 Mbytes of FLASH
and 512 Mbytes of DRAM. Connection to the home network is via Gigabit
Ethernet. Peripherals such as direct attached storage can be connected using a
USB 2.0 port. Multiple standard Linux 2.6 kernel distributions are supported
on the SheevaPlug(TM) development platform enabling rapid application
development. SheevaPlug(TM) is designed to plug directly into a standard wall
socket and is designed to draw less than one tenth of the power of a typical
PC being used as a home server.

About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a leader in the development of storage,
communications, and consumer silicon solutions. The company'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 terms "company" and "Marvell" refer to Marvell
Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit
http://www.marvell.com.

Marvell and M logo are registered trademarks; Sheeva, SheevaPlug and Kirkwood
are trademarks.

For Further Information Contact:
Marvell Media Relations Marvell Media Relations
Diane Vanasse Tate Tran
Tel: 408-222-5198 Tel: 408-222-7522
dvanasse@marvell.com tate@marvell.com

SOURCE Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.

Diane Vanasse, +1-408-222-5198, dvanasse@marvell.com, or Tate Tran,
+1-408-222-7522, tate@marvell.com, both of Marvell Media Relations