Marvell announced the availability of its ARMADA 3700 system-on-chip (SoC), a highly-flexible and scalable solution optimized for media-attached network storage, mobile-attached network storage, distributed cloud SSD/HDD storage, retail Wi-Fi routers, Wi-Fi repeater, IoT hub and gateway applications. Based on Marvell's groundbreaking modular chip or MoChi architecture, the ARMADA 3700 family can be expanded as a Virtual SoC (Marvell VSoC) with additional MoChi modules to support customized connectivity and I/O technologies and interfaces. The ARMADA 3700 is an extremely low-power solution, providing even battery-powered media storage, and its compact size (11.5mm x 10.5mm) enables smaller and more elegant form factor designs.

Integrating a powerful dual 64-bit ARM v8 Cortex-A53 processor, the Marvell VSoC allows the chip to run multiple applications simultaneously. The ARMADA 3700 SoC family incorporates rich high-speed I/Os including USB 3.0, SATA 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet (1GbE) and 2.5 GbE (NBASE-T). In addition, the devices feature a wide set of security and data acceleration engines suitable for innovative networking, storage, and compute applications.

The ARMADA 3700 supports advanced power management technologies for switching on each CPU core as well as per core dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. This offers a significant reduction in power consumption under different workloads and delivers unprecedented performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar in the embedded markets. The ARMADA 3700 chip is currently sampling to customers designing and developing network storage, retail router and repeater, and various other solutions.