Marvell 6Gb SATA Controllers Find Customers

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. announced that its Marvell 88SE91XX series, 6Gb/s SATA controllers will ship in the new ASUS P6X58D Premium and P7P55D-E series and GIGABYTE INTEL GA-P55A, GA-X58A and AMD GA-790FXTA motherboards
to further reinforce Marvell’s market leadership in delivering
advantages in performance, advanced data protection, and
interoperability for next generation consumer desktops and laptops.

Utilizing the industry’s first serial ATA revision 3.0 solution from
Marvell, these new motherboards feature advanced AES 256 bit data encryption and a blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/s interface.

"ASUS P7P55D Premium is worldwide first motherboard to natively
support 6Gbps data transfer bandwidth. With this expansion bridge, the
P7P55D Premium unleashes the performance potential of the latest hard
disk drives, achieving almost double the throughput from existing SATA
compatible drives," said CheWei Lin, General Manager of the ASUS Motherboard Business Unit. "We
chose the Marvell 6Gb/s SATA controller for its unique ability to
deliver superfast 6Gbps link speeds for twice the data transfer rates
of SATA Revision 2.6 (3 Gbps) – overall improving consumers’
experiences."

"GIGABYTE is the first motherboard manufacturer to utilize
Marvell’s 6Gb/s SATA controller with RAID0 functionality on a wide
range of both Intel and AMD based motherboards including the GIGABYTE
GA-P55A, GA-X58A and GA-700A series," commented Henry Kao, Vice President of the Motherboard Business Unit at GIGABYTE. "The
versatility of the Marvell solution enables us to offer our customers a
complete range of top-to-bottom solutions – each offering the
industry’s highest 6Gb/s bandwidth with the added bonus of RAID0 for up
to four times the data transfer speed of SATA Revision 2.0."

In addition to powering ASUSTek and GIGABYTE, Marvell also collaborated with motherboard vendors like ASRock, MSI, and 6Gb/s SATA hard disk drive and solid-state drive vendors to further proliferate 6Gb/s SATA adoption within the industry.

"Micron and Marvell have worked together for several years
optimizing the SSD controller to enable the true performance of NAND.
The performance numbers achieved using the RealSSD C300 far exceeds the
competition, and we look forward to collaborating with ASUSTek and
GIGABYTE to demonstrate the blazing fast SATA 6Gb/s storage solution at
CES in Las Vegas," said Dean Klein, Vice President of Memory System Development at Micron. "We are setting a new standard for next generation, high performance computing devices."  

"We’re excited to see original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
adopt and deliver the Marvell 6Gb/s SATA controllers into the market," said Alan Armstrong, Vice President of Marketing for the Storage Business Group at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "The Marvell 6Gb/s SATA controller allows PC OEMs to deliver top-notch, unmatched industry performance that will amaze end-users."