These best-in-class silicon solutions leverage Marvell’s decade-long leadership in developing embedded wireless solutions, including Marvell’s successful Kinoma platform for connected devices and IoT. Marvell’s new offerings are specifically designed to make it easy for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to rapidly bring new, innovative IoT applications to market.

The new system-on-chip (SoC) solutions are powered by Marvell EZ-Connect Software and supported by a vast ecosystem of partners. Marvell’s EZ-Connect Software provides production-ready software for industry standard communication protocols. Complete with easy-to-use software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs), the EZ-Connect Software enables developers to leverage the full potential of a built-in microcontroller on the SoC solutions.

With Marvell’s complete IoT platform solution, developers are able to save months of software development efforts and can focus their energy and resources on bringing innovative services and applications to consumers and end users through their IoT devices.

"Marvell is proudly powering the 'Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle'’ through flexible, energy-efficient platforms that enable our customers and partners to deliver new and innovative connected products in the rapidly growing Internet of Things market," said Philip Poulidis, Vice President and General Manager, Mobile and Internet of Things Business Units at Marvell.

"Marvell's latest system-on-chip solutions offer unparalleled advantages for home automation, LED lighting control, remote control, healthcare monitoring and other applications. Marvell's EZ-Connect delivers the industry's highest level of integration to significantly improve performance, lower power consumption, and reduce the total bill of materials."

"Marvell's track record powering the Smart Lifestyle underscores the company's value proposition of bringing to market best-in-class technologies that fuel the proliferation of connected devices," said Larry Cornett, analyst at GigaOm and product strategy and design consultant for Brilliant Forge.

"The promise of the Internet of Things is beginning to be realized, and we can expect to see more applications come online this year with companies, like Marvell, offering complete connectivity solutions at the core."