Santa Clara, California and Las Vegas, Nevada (January 5, 2016) – Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL), a world leader in storage, cloud infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity and multimedia semiconductor solutions, today announced that the Marvell EZ-Connect™ MW300 and MW302 Wi-Fi microcontroller system-on-chips (SoCs) will support Google Weave, a communications platform for IoT devices that enables device setup, phone-to-device-to-cloud communication and user interaction from mobile devices and the web. The MW300 family of microcontrollers are highly integrated SoCs that are optimized for IoT applications and come with a comprehensive software development kit that already includes support for Apple HomeKit as well as a number of IoT Cloud platforms including Amazon’s AWS-IoT Service. Marvell’s industry leading EZ-Connect microcontrollers have been adopted by leading global OEMs to develop a broad range of products including home appliances, thermostats, CO/smoke detectors, toys, wireless storage, HomeKit accessories, and other smart connected products. Marvell’s customers will now be able to quickly develop and bring to market products with full support for Google Weave. This announcement comes on the heels of Marvell’s recent introduction of its Andromeda Box™ IoT platform made for Google’s Brillo operating system based on Android, with native support for Weave Protocol. With the addition of Weave enabled end devices to the Brillo OS powered gateway, hub and edge devices, Marvell provides a true end-to-end IoT platform for leading OEMs and developers.
“We are proud to deliver the first Weave enabled MCU device and to further integrate our wireless solutions with Google’s IoT platform,” said Philip Poulidis, Vice President and General Manager, IoT, Automotive and Multimedia Business Units at Marvell. “Our work with Google reflects our leadership in developing next generation of smart IoT devices and we look forward to future collaborations to deliver simple and effective machine-to-machine interactions.”
The Marvell EZ-Connect MW300 and MW302 wireless microcontroller SoCs target a full range of IoT applications including: wearables, home automation, home security, personal healthcare, smart appliances, smart toys, accessories and remote controls, automotive, lighting, industrial Internet and more.
Key features of the Marvell EZ-Connect MW300 Wi-Fi microcontroller include:
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