Marvell has been well known for its communications, interface and embedded controller chips. They currently make about 1 Billion chips a year, and about 65% of them have at least one ARM core in them. Based on this expertise, leveraging their ARM architecture license and the custom processor experience from the Xscale processor group acquired several years back, Marvell has created a new ARM based application processor family called Armada.

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