Marvell, a provider of storage, communications, and consumer silicon products, has introduced its PXA920, a single-chip product enabling TD-SCDMA smartphones by China Mobile. The company claimed that the new offering is an integrated chipset that makes the new smartphones affordable and offers better performance than the current smartphones.
The PXA920 processor is reportedly an evolution of the company’s PXA9 series tri-core architecture product (codename Tavor), is China Mobile OPhone ready, and supports open OS software platforms.
The company said that PXA920 comes with ARM instruction set compliant Sheeva processor and an integrated release 7 (TD-SCDMA, TD-HSDPA, TD-HSUPA) TD-SCDMA baseband and a China Mobile proven EDGE modem.
Weili Dai, co-founder and vice president and general manager of consumer and computing business group at Marvell, said: The PXA920 realises a shared vision of China Mobile and Marvell to make powerful and affordable smartphones accessible to everyone. With the first single chip solution for TD-SCDMA, Marvell is raising the technology bar for the entire industry.
“When combined with China Mobile’s OPhone Platform, Marvell believes the PXA920 will drive the rapid adoption of China’s TD-SCDMA standard. Marvell is honored to contribute to the growth of China’s 3G and 4G technology through our joint development with China Mobile.
