Guide Note

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. is a tech company that produces storage, communications and consumer semiconductor products.

Marvell products can be found in a wide-range of consumer and business products including Wireless LAN, wireless networking and Serial ATA interface technologies.

Fast Facts

1. Stock symbol: NYSE: MRVL
2. Annual revenue (2007): $2.24 billion
3. Founders: Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai, Pantas Sutardja
4. Year Established: 1995
5. Industry: Semiconductors
6. Phone: 441.296.6395
7. Fax: 441.296.6395
8. HQ: Santa Clara, CA
9. CEO: Sehat Sutardja
10. CFO: George A. de Urioste

1. October 2000: Galileo Technology
2. June 2002: SysKonnect
3. February 2003: RADLAN
4. August 2005: Hard disk controller division of Qlogic
5. December 2005: SOC division of UTStarcom
6. February 2006: Printer ASIC business of Avago
7. February 2006: Xscale product line from Intel

In October 2006, Marvell was publicly criticized by Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman for not providing hardware specifications in enough detail to support the wireless devices used by the One Laptop Per Child program.