Consortium Also Announces Enhancement to the Specification
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --
SPMT, LLC, the entity responsible for administering the SPMT Consortium and licensing the SPMTTM (Serial Port Memory Technology) specification, today announced that Marvell, a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, has joined the Consortium as a promoter member. The other SPMT promoter members are ARM Limited; Hynix Semiconductor, Inc.; LG Electronics Inc.; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; and Silicon Image, Inc. Promoters are responsible for developing the SPMT memory interface specification for broad market adoption as an industry standard.
Today the Consortium also announced a specification enhancement that will enable the design of SPMT memory with SerialSwitchTM technology, the industry's first standard solution that combines the low power of existing parallel memories with the high-performance capabilities of SPMT serial DRAM technology to deliver four times the bandwidth pin-for-pin at half the power of existing memory solutions. For more information about this latest specification announcement, please visit http://www.spmt.org.
"Today's mobile DRAM technology is geared to support the bandwidth needs of single core processors. As devices evolve to integrate multi-core CPU, multi shader 3D graphic engines at multi-GigaHertz speeds, it's clear that DRAM will be the single performance bottleneck, especially for handheld systems where power budget is a major constraint," said Dr. Sehat Sutardja, chairman, president and chief executive officer at Marvell. "Marvell is joining the SPMT Consortium to actively promote Serial Port Memory Technology as an industry standard and address the immediate needs of the industry. We encourage other companies active in the sector to join us in our mission."
SPMT-enabled memory with SerialSwitch technology offers low power during power-down and low-bandwidth operations, but can switch to high-performance SPMT serial mode, boosting performance from 1.6 GB/s in parallel mode to 6.4 GB/s in serial mode. The technology is optimized for mobile and consumer electronics applications with high-bandwidth requirements like HD video, 3D action gaming, mobile projection, and more.
"Marvell's position as an industry leader in technologies that optimize performance, power consumption and overall cost-efficiency for mobile devices and consumer electronics makes them an ideal promoter for the SPMT memory interface," said Jim Venable, president of SPMT, LLC. "We welcome Marvell to the Consortium and are looking forward to working together to advance the SPMT standard."
The SPMT Consortium welcomes inquiries from companies and organizations interested in joining the group. For more information about the technology, the benefits of SPMT membership as well as an application to join, please visit http://www.spmt.org.
About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit http://www.marvell.com.
About SPMT, LLC
SPMT, LLC, founded in 2009 by leading mobile market companies, is the entity responsible for licensing the SPMT (Serial Port Memory Technology) memory interface specification. The organization and its founding members define and implement Serial Port Memory Technology for broad market adoption as an industry standard memory interface capable of delivering the bandwidth flexibility, scalability, reduced pin count and low power required by future generations of mobile devices. Consortium members include ARM; Hynix Semiconductor, Inc.; LG Electronics; Marvell; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; and Silicon Image, Inc. SPMT, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Image, Inc. For more information about Serial Port Memory Technology and the benefits of Consortium membership, visit http://www.spmt.org.
Forward-looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the features, time-to-market, cost and advantages and benefits of Serial Port Memory Technology with SerialSwitch technology, as well as the establishment of Serial Port Memory Technology as an industry standard. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the risks that the anticipated features, functionality, cost, advantages and benefits and market adoption of Serial Port Memory Technology will not be realized, as well as those risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These risks and uncertainties could cause the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements contained in this news release. Silicon Image assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.
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