Continuing to excel in communications and multimedia technology, Marvell has recently annunciated a new platform for smartphone manufacturers: the Pantheon platforms. The new platforms are designed to proffer groundbreaking levels of integration that inherently lower the bill of materials for mobile devices while ensuring unprecedented performance, connectivity, and compelling user experience.
The new development integrates Marvell’s advanced modem technology, seamless wireless connectivity, and superior multimedia processing to enable superior mobile Internet experience.
“Marvell is delivering the platform for a $99 smartphone that provides instant access, live content, high performance 3D mobile gaming, rich HD media and a wealth of applications. That is what today’s ‘always-on consumers’ want,” stated Weili Dai, Marvell’s Co-founder and Vice President and General Manager of Marvell Semiconductor’s Consumer and Computing Business Unit. “Marvell’s versatile platform solutions have been making high-volume smartphones more powerful, functional and affordable for more than a decade. The new generation of platforms we are shipping today offer higher performance and greater integration of onboard functionality – which lowers the manufacturing costs and makes the mass market $99 smartphone very real.”
The Pantheon-powered smartphones provide high-quality user experiences that are designed to comprise rich user interfaces, instant live HD quality video, high performance 3D mobile gaming, extended music playback, other renowned mobile phone apps, and long battery life.
Further, Pantheon solutions subsume sturdy application processors, field-hardened cellular modems, radio frequency devices, efficient power management, power-effective Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM connectivity and the software and system expertise.
To notify, presently, the Marvell Pantheon platforms are sampling to top tier customers. The pricing details are kept under the covers for now.