One Billion WD HDDs Sold With Marvell Chips Inside

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and Western Digital Corp. announced that the two companies have achieved a milestone in their decade-long business relationship with WD having shipped more than one billion hard disk drives with Marvell chips.

From 2001 through 2008, Marvell’s cumulative shipments to WD were more than 400 million units.

However, from 2008 to 2012, to date, Marvell’s shipments to WD have increased significantly, now totaling over one billion units since 2001. This has resulted in a multitude of products across mobile, desktop and enterprise platforms.

The WD-Marvell relationship has evolved from discrete read channel and controller solutions in PATA drives to integrated SATA- and SAS-based SoCs. Marvell is now shipping its 8th generation SATA SoC solution to WD including innovations such as LDPC. The companies are continuing their collaboration to deliver next-generation storage solutions across a spectrum of applications and emerging technologies.

"Marvell continues to deliver high performance silicon products on a consistent basis, which is helping us succeed in the highly competitive hard disk drive storage industry," said Rubik Babakanian, WD’s SVP and chief procurement officer. "We are pleased to achieve this significant milestone with Marvell and are confident that our recently expanded technological partnership with and commitment from Marvell will be mutually beneficial as we bring new advanced storage products to the market."

"We are proud of the accomplishments Marvell and WD have achieved together in the storage industry for more than a decade," said Dr. Sehat Sutardja, Marvell’s chairman and CEO. "Storage technologies and the ability to support ever increasing capacity requirements continue to be a critical driver in the evolution of consumer electronics, and currently we are collaborating on advanced signal processing technologies and progressive integration techniques that will enable WD to develop cutting edge products well into the future. It is an exciting time for both organizations, and the future has never looked brighter as we continue to work together to drive the industry forward."