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Marvell Semiconductor is sampling its Armada 7000 and Armada 8000 system-on-chips (SoCs), based on the ARM Cortex-A72 architecture. Marvell reckons the SoCs are good for appliances from SOHO up to data centres, with dual- and quad-core versions, and are in the hands of "tier 1" vendors' design teams. The centrepiece of the …

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  1. Pseudonymous Diehard

    Marvell stuff

    Always looks good on paper...in practice it usually sucks.

    Microsoft Surfaces are plagued with bluetooth and wifi issues vecause the crummy Marvell chipsets they use.

    I think its mainly driver related though. Fidning drivers for Marvell chips is frustrating. Updates are few and far between as well.

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