Marvell Technology Inc (MRVL)

[Johnberchick]

I just cannot agree with you. Has done nothing but crush the stock and as MRVL slowly makes the turn on this aquisition you have this to deal with......INTC actually calling ARM out for a take down.

Intel CEO:To Challenge ARM Hldgs In High-End Cell Phone Mkt-FT
Tuesday 04/08/2008 6:29 PM ET - Dow Jones News
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
The dominance of the U.K.'s ARM Holdings PLC's (ARM.LN) chips in mobile phones will soon be facing a challenge from Intel Corp. (INTC), according to the U.S. chipmaker's chief executive, the Financial Times reported on its Web site Tuesday.
As the phone and computer industries increasingly converge, high-end, Internet-enabled mobile phones will likely start including Intel chips, Paul Otellini told the FT.
"As laptops get smaller and phones get smarter it is difficult to say what is a laptop and what is a handset. You only have to look at the iPhone today to see where the industry is headed," Otellini told the FT. "In 10 years' time, every phone will be like an iPhone."
Two years ago, Intel seemingly gave up on the mobile sector when it sold its handset chip operations to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL). It has since returned, however, with its small, low-energy Atom processors aimed at challenging ARM.
Otellini said Intel will only target the top 10% or 20% of mobile handsets, which should be highly geared around Internet use. He also told the FT he believes Intel's chips will bring a consistency to the mobile Internet that has been hard to achieve on ARM-based processors.
"Everyone implements ARM's designs differently. There is no set of software that runs consistently on ARM. Even multiple generations of chip by the same chipmaker run differently," Otellini told the FT. "The idea of constantly having to rewrite the Internet to work on these machines is nuts."
In contrast, he said the Atom chip can run Internet programs more easily, because the Internet has already been optimized to run on Intel-based machines. "No one thinks of the Internet as a compatibility issue, but it is similar to problems with operating systems. Flash, Java, Ajax, all those programming languages assume there is an Intel-based machine at the end of the chain," he told the FT.
Intel will first include the Atom chips in a new category of "mobile Internet devices," sized between a smart phone and laptop, that are expected to start shipping this year. It will then move on to Internet-enabled phones, the FT reported.
Separately, Intel is pushing WiMax wireless broadband technology as a challenger to the 3G mobile phone network to deliver mobile Internet connectivity, according to the FT.

Newspaper Web site: http://www.ft.com