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  1. thiggins

    Marvell Exits Wi-Fi Business, Selling to NXP

    Bloomberg yesterday reported that Marvell is selling its Wi-Fi chip business to NXP Semiconductors for $1.76 Billion. The report says "The all-cash acquisition includes Marvell’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology and related assets, and will allow the automotive industry’s biggest chip supplier to...
  2. sfx2000

    VHT in 2.4GHz ISM band - it can happen - proof attached

    VHT (802.11ac) in 2.4GHz is the basis for many vendor claims of AC1900 and higher performance. It's been discussed in other threads that VHT/TurboQAM type connections are a challenge in the real world - I agree, I've been able to do this on a lab bench, but it's rare to see in real-world usage...
  3. sfx2000

    [news] SolidRun GT 8K - Armada 8040 (quad A72)

    This is a productization of the MACCHIATObin board... it's a real beast, spent some time looking at the MACCHIATOBin dev board when I was doing my little science project based on it's little brother from GlobalScale (EspressoBin). https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/clearfog-gt-8k/...
  4. Julio Urquidi

    Asustor Announces Consumer NAS Line With 10 GbE and New Marvell Processor

    Asustor’s new desktop NAS line consists of the 2-bay AS4002T and the 4-bay AS4004T. Targeting consumers, these new NASes debut two firsts from Asustor; integrated 10 GbE in a consumer NAS and first in-market to use Marvell’s Armada Cortex-A72 64-bit dual-core processor. Additional hardware...
  5. thiggins

    Marvell Announces 11ax/11ac Dual WiFi SoC

    Marvell today introduced an 802.11ax SoC with 2x2 11ax and 2x2 11ac concurrent dual Wi-Fi radios, dual-mode Bluetooth 5/Bluetooth Low Energy radios and support for 802.11p for connected vehicles. The 88Q9098 integrages two complete Wi-Fi subsystems into a single SoC, and enabling two...
  6. thiggins

    Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Roaming Assist Certification Program

    The Alliance's Wi-Fi Agile Multiband Certification program is based on IEEE 802.11 k, v, u and r standards plus "Wi-Fi Alliance defined technologies". It is intended to establish a standard use of these technologies vs. the piecemeal approach currently taken by most makers of Wi-Fi product and...
  7. Julio Urquidi

    Marvell Announces 802.11ax Device Family

    Marvell signaled its entry into the arena for next-generation Wi-Fi with the announcement of its first 802.11ax products. Marvell's 11ax portfolio includes two, four and eight stream devices. The 88W9068 is a 5 GHz only 8x8 for high-end access points and wireless routers. The 88W9064 is a...
  8. thiggins

    Marvell Said To Be Buying Cavium

    (Reuters) - Chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd (MRVL.O) has agreed to acquire smaller peer Cavium Inc (CAVM.O) for around $6 billion, as it seeks to expand in the networking equipment sector, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday...
  9. sfx2000

    [fs] - GlobalScale Espressobin Developer Board

    $55USD plus shipping This is a brand new board, not even powered up. Going thru the closet at the my office, I stumbled on a spare EspressoBin board. We shipped eMMC equipped boards to dev and customer demos - this one does not have an eMMC, so it went on the shelf. This is related to my...
  10. thiggins

    Sub $200 Thecus 2 Bay NAS Coming Soon

    Thecus has announced the N2350 SOHO NAS. It's an upgraded version of Thecus' low-cost two-bay N2310, powered by a dual-core 1.0 GHz Marvell Armada 385 CPU with 1 GB of DDR4 RAM. Port complement includes one Gigabit Ethernet LAN and two USB 3.0. The N2350 runs ThecusOS 7.0, which supports a rich...
  11. thiggins

    Synology DS416 & DS416j Reviewed

    Synology's DS416 and DS416j are both good values in four-bay RAID 5 NASes. Read on SmallNetBuilder
  12. sfx2000

    Upcoming Marvell Boards - ARMv8

    Lot of folks know perhaps about the low-end A53 based Armada board...e.g GlobalScale's EspressoBin board... https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-72-marvell-espressobin.aspx SolidRun is doing the higher end MacchiatoBin board - based on the Armada 8040 (Quad Cortex-A72)...
  13. Julio Urquidi

    Marvell To Restructure Its Business - Includes Layoffs

    In an effort to rebuild its focus on R&D, Marvell announced that it is going to implement changes, including layoffs, that would drop its annual operating expenses from $1.08 billion to at least $820 million. The company said that it would discontinue, consolidate, and streamline specific R&D...
  14. thiggins

    Linksys Announces First Contiguous 160 MHz Router

    Linksys today announced the WRT3200ACM, the latest in the company’s line of WRT routers. The WRT 3200ACM is a simultaneous dual-band MU-MIMO router that is the first to support contiguous 160 MHz bandwidth channels in 5 GHz. Because 160 MHz bandwidth uses eight 5 GHz channels--typically all...
  15. thiggins

    Arris SBX-AC1200P SURFboard Wireless Network Extender with RipCurrent Reviewed

    Arris' SBX-AC1200P SURFboard Wireless Network Extender with RipCurrent is a nice little powerline-connected Wi-Fi extender, but trapped in a G.hn world. Read on SmallNetBuilder
  16. thiggins

    Arris SBX-1000P SURFboard Wired Network Extender with RipCurrent Reviewed

    Arris's SBX-1000P doesn't put a best foot forward for G.hn powerline technology. Read on SmallNetBuilder
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