There are LTE modems and there are LTE modems . Marvell’s latest is of the latter sort — the sort you do not see (or lose on your bag) but are glad to have inside your device. It is also a primary, packing connectivity for FDD-LTE, TDD-LTE, HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, and EDGE networks right into a single-chip design that promises to lower the price of manufacturing said devices. If Marvell has its way, you’ll even be seeing this actual modem in additional than simply phones and tablets — the corporate also sees it getting used in everything from cars to TVs and set-top boxes. Full press release is after the break.
Marvell’s LTE world modem technology is designed to give among the highest mobile data rates for smartphones, tablets, laptops, TVs and other connected devices anywhere across the world
Santa Clara, California (September 7, 2011) – Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a world leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced its latest breakthrough technology for global mobile communications, the Marvell® PXA1801 single-chip LTE world modem. The PXA1801 single-chip LTE world modem combines Marvell’s leading communications and silicon expertise to enable the design of a wide selection of high-performance, low-power Internet-connected devices including: smartphones, tablets, laptops, automotive, set-top-boxes and TVs. The PXA1801 is a real Mobile Multi-RAT design combining 3GPP R9 Cat 4 FDD-LTE (Frequency Division Duplexing Long run Evolution) and TDD-LTE (Time Division Duplexing Long time Evolution) with R8 DC-HSPA+ (Dual Carrier Evolved High-Speed Packet Access) for both WB-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) and TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) standards and EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) delivering the top data rate available in any given geography.
“The sector modem is another game-changing breakthrough from Marvell. As a pace-setter in China’s 3G standard TD-SCDMA technology, Marvell has enabled the delivery of a big selection of affordable, advanced consumer devices – including smartphones, tablets and mobile hot spot devices – to China, the world’s largest mobile market. Building on that foundation, Marvell is now leading how you can a brand new era of seamless global connectivity for the hundreds with the industry’s first single chip 2G/3G/4G modem with support for FDD-LTE, TDD-LTE, HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, and EDGE,” said Weili Dai, Marvell’s Co-Founder. “I envision a time soon when a really affordable global communications network helps to bring our world closer as consumers from every walk of life enjoy uninterrupted access to all services, applications and the global cloud from any device they choose anywhere they roam. i’m pleased with Marvell’s global team of engineers for his or her pioneering work and i’m interested in the complete potential applications our customers should use this flexible and affordable new technology to make the sector a wiser place for everybody.”
Marvell’s solution is designed to deliver superior technical performance and extreme flexibility at a far cheaper price of implementation, that is the important thing to mass adoption of this new standard on a world basis. Widespread implementation of the arena modem should both alleviate today’s overly strained 3G networks and produce unprecedented service to a possible market of greater than two billion new consumers. As 3G will continue to play a prominent role in data communications for the subsequent several years, Marvell has integrated advanced R8 WCDMA HSPA+ (42 Mbps DL) and R8 TD-SCDMA HSPA+ (8.4 Mbps DL) capability ensuring that customers have the best performance access to their data in spite of infrastructure availability in anyone location.
Additionally, as LTE plays a significant role in allowing the cellular infrastructure to scale and meet the growing demands for streaming video and knowledge traffic, Marvell’s advanced LTE technology is designed to support the very best levels of performance available within the industry today with Category 4 throughputs of 150 Mbps DL (Down Link). Through its support of release 9 features, consisting of dual layer beamforming, Marvell LTE substantially enhances signal reception as seen by the users. Supporting all channel bandwidths, including FDD-LTE/TDD-LTE configurations, SISO and MIMO operation, Marvell’s LTE technology is designed to offer the pliability required to fulfill the global needs of the growing mobile data market.
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