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It’s been a little over a year since we covered Marvell’s OCTEON TX2 infrastructure processors, and since then, the ecosystem has been evolving in an extremely fast manner – both within Marvell and outside. Today, we’re covering the new generation OCTEON 10 family of DPUs, a whole new family of SoCs, built upon TSMC’s 5nm process node and also for the featuring for the first time Arm’s new Neoverse N2 processors.
Marvell Announces New Kinoma IoT Prototyping Platforms
Today Marvell announces two new internet-of-things (IoT) hardware prototyping platforms as part of their Kinoma "JavaScript-powered Internet of Things construction kit" lineup. The Kinoma Element and Kinoma HD provide...
3 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/24/2015
Plextor M7e PCIe SSD to Ship in Q3, M7V TLC SSD in 2016 & New Software Features
Plextor first showed off the M7e at CES earlier this year and at Computex we got an update on the release schedule. Plextor is now aiming for Q3 release...
16 by Kristian Vättö on 6/11/2015
ADATA Displays XPG SX930 SSD, Two New TLC SSDs, Several PCIe Drives & USB Type-C Products
After a long week of meetings and over a day worth of traveling, I'm finally back from Taipei. Given our hectic schedule (it was just me and Ian at...
7 by Kristian Vättö on 6/8/2015
Synology Launches ARM-based DS1515 and RS815 Value Series NAS Units
Synology introduced their x15+ series in the second half of 2014. The models were all based on the Intel Rangeley platform (x86). It is now time for a refresh...
43 by Ganesh T S on 4/14/2015
Marvell Launches First Apple HomeKit SDK for IoT Accessories
Today Marvell is announcing general availability of the industry's first embedded software development kit (SDK) with Apple HomeKit support. Specifically, Marvell's existing EZ-Connect IoT Platform is now HomeKit enabled. HomeKit...
14 by Stephen Barrett on 3/10/2015
Quantenna Maintains 802.11ac Technology Lead as Broadcom and Marvell Launch New Chipsets
Quantenna was the first to bring a 4x4 MU-MIMO 802.11ac chipset to the market (with the Asus RT-AC87U and the Netgear Nighthawk X4 R7500). It has a number of...
7 by Ganesh T S on 1/11/2015
FMS 2014: Marvell Announces NVMe-Enabled PCIe 3.0 x4 88SS1093 SSD Controller
Two weeks ago Marvell announced their first PCIe SSD controller with NVMe support, named as 88SS1093. It supports PCIe 3.0 x4 interface with up to 4GB/s of bandwidth between...
23 by Kristian Vättö on 8/21/2014
SanDisk Releases Ultra II SSD: Bringing More TLC NAND to the Market
It is a busy day in the client SSD space as earlier today AMD announced the company's first SSD, the R7, and now SanDisk is releasing the Ultra II...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 8/19/2014
Seagate NAS 4-Bay with Marvell ARMADA 370 Review
Seagate recently rebooted their NAS offerings, completely revamping their 2013 Business Storage lineup and dropping the old software platform altogether. In its place, they adopted the Debian-based NAS OS...
20 by Ganesh T S on 7/24/2014
Synology Introduces DS414slim with Marvell ARMADA 370
NAS units capable of only accepting 2.5" drives have been a rarity, but the launch of WD Red drives in that form factor has given a boost to vendors...
33 by Ganesh T S on 5/28/2014
Strontium Hawk (240GB) Review
Strontium is probably a new acquaintance for many of our readers, but their story may be familiar. Founded in 2002 in Singapore, Strontium is one of the many memory...
28 by Kristian Vättö on 6/25/2013
Plextor M5M (256GB) mSATA Review
Plextor has been increasing their presence in the SSD market month by month. It's not a coincidence, we have been very pleased with all Plextor's drives that we have...
36 by Kristian Vättö on 4/17/2013
Apple Is Now Using SanDisk SSDs in the Retina MacBook Pro As Well
There has always been some level of lottery involved when buying an SSD-equipped Mac. The first Mac to start the lottery was the 2010 MacBook Air, which initially used...
31 by Kristian Vättö on 2/5/2013
Checking Their Pulse: Hisense's Google TV Box at CES
So, Google TV is still happening. Indeed, more players are getting into the game than ever. Hisense is a Chinese OEM/ODM that's seen steady growth in the television market...
10 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/14/2013
G.hn and HomePlug Head for Showdown
It has been a while since we covered PLC (powerline communication) technology here, but we took the opportunity to check up on the latest and greatest in the area...
5 by Ganesh T S on 1/14/2013
SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD Review (256GB)
SanDisk is a household name as far as NAND storage is concerned. You can’t walk into an electronics retailer and not be bombarded with SanDisk made CompactFlash and SD...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/7/2013
Marvell Adds NVDRIVE to DragonFly Family of Enterprise Storage Accelerators
Marvell's DragonFly virtual storage accelerators have been around for close to two years. Back in April 2011, StorageReview had some hands-on time with the DragonFly storage accelerator. In August...
5 by Ganesh T S on 1/3/2013
Plextor Updates The Firmware on M5 Pro: Promises Increased Performance, We Test It
Plextor released their M5 Pro SSD in August, which we reviewed shortly after the release. Now nearly four months later, Plextor has released an updated firmware (v1.02) for the...
46 by Kristian Vättö on 12/10/2012
OCZ Agility 4 (256GB) Review
For the last few years, OCZ's consumer SSD lineup has primarily consisted of two models: Vertex and Agility. The history of these two goes all the way back to...
41 by Kristian Vättö on 9/1/2012
Plextor M5 Pro (256GB) Review
Plextor has been making steady progress in becoming a real player in the SSD market. As we saw with the M3 Pro, they have a firmware team capable of...
37 by Kristian Vättö on 8/31/2012
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