Marvell Technology Group Ltd. announced that the Marvell(R) ARMADA(R)1500 series System-on-Chip (SoC) platform is at the core of new Google TV products from Hisense USA Corp., including the Hisense Pulse and the XT780 Smart TV series. Hisense's expanding U.S. footprint underscores Marvell's role in a growing global ecosystem for Google TV-enabled entertainment. Marvell and Hisense will demonstrate the new products -- including the XT780, which has been recognized as a CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Award Honoree -- at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Booth Nos.

31423 and 7243, respectively. The Hisense Pulse with Google TV offers true plug-and-play versatility, with easy setup and connectivity right out of the box. Built on Android, Google TV delivers TV-optimized versions of consumers' favorite Google services: Chrome, Google Play, Search, PrimeTime and YouTube.

Similar to Google's well-known Web search functionality, Google TV enables a new way to find the most relevant television content. Google TV can intuitively search and sort through millions of channels and shows across live television, content services, home networks, applications and the Web, discovering and delivering what is most meaningful to each viewer. Hisense also will be releasing a series of Smart TVs leveraging the Google TV platform in the first half of 2013, ranging in size from 42 inches to 65 inches, with a Qwerty remote control and touch pad.

The new Google TV series will include breakthrough features such as Social TV and support for second screen displays. The ARMADA 1500 also contains Marvell's Qdeo(R) video processing for HD and 3D video, including scaling, noise reduction, de-interlacing, low bit-rate Internet video enhancement and FRC, and color/contrast enhancement. The chip offers VMeta(TM), a multi-format video decoder that can decode up to two simultaneous 1080p streams, as well as a host of other video formats and containers.