Marvell
Type	Public
Founded	1995
Founder	Sehat Sutardja Weili Dai Pantas Sutardja
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California
Website	http://www.marvell.com/

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. or Marvell Technology is an American fabless semiconductor company.

Marvell primarily focuses on communication, storage, and embedded semiconductor products.

• On November 20 2017, Marvell announced they will be acquiring Cavium in a $6 billion deal.

This was completed July 6, 2018.

• The Berlin family was acquired by Synaptics from Marvell in 2017.

List of processor families

• ARMADA
• AVANTA
• Berlin
• Dove
• Discovery
• Kirkwood
• Orion
• Storage
• ThunderX (Cavium)
• ThunderX2 (Cavium)
• ThunderX3 (Cavium)
• XScale (Intel)

List of microarchitectures

• Feroceon
• Flareon
• Jolteon
• Mohawk
• Sheeva PJ1
• Sheeva PJ4

Chipsets

WikiChip:wanted chips#Marvell

CPU Cores

• The XScale cores were designed by Intel, and shipped by Marvell in the older PXA processors.
• Feroceon is a Marvell designed core that developed in-house, and that evolved into Sheeva.
• The XScale and Feroceon cores were phased out over time and replaced with Sheeva cores

in later products, which subsequently got replaced with licensed ARM Cortex-A cores.

XScale 1

CPUID 0x69052xxx (ARMv5, iWMMXt)

XScale 2

CPUID 0x69054xxx (ARMv5, iWMMXt)

XScale 3

CPUID 0x69056xxx (ARMv5, iWMMXt)

Feroceon 88fr131 • “Mohawk-D”

CPUID 0x5625131x (ARMv5TE, single-issue in-order)

Feroceon-1850 88fr331 • “Mohawk”

CPUID 0x5615331x or 0x41xx926x (ARMv5TE, single issue)

Feroceon-2850 88fr531-vd • “Jolteon”

CPUID 0x5605531x or 0x41xx926x (ARMv5TE, VFP, dual-issue)

Feroceon 88fr571-vd • “Jolteon”

CPUID 0x5615571x (ARMv5TE, VFP, dual-issue)

Sheeva PJ1 88sv331 • “Mohawk”

CPUID 0x561584xx (ARMv5, single-issue iWMMXt v2)

Sheeva PJ4 88sv581x • “Flareon”

CPUID 0x560f581x (ARMv7, idivt, optional iWMMXt v2)

Sheeva PJ4B 88sv581x • “Flareon”

CPUID 0x561f581x (ARMv7, idivt, optional iWMMXt v2)

Sheeva PJ4B-MP / PJ4C

CPUID 0x562f584x (ARMv7, idivt/idiva, LPAE, optional iWMMXt v2 and/or NEON)

Comments

The PXA line of SoCs originates from the XScale family developed by Intel and acquired by Marvell in ~2006.

All the processors of this MMP/MMP2 family were developed by Marvell.

Due to their XScale origin, these SoCs have virtually nothing in common with the other (Kirkwood, Dove, etc.)

families of Marvell SoCs, except with the PXA family of SoCs listed above.