Marvell bets on the Chinese LTE market

China Mobile announced on Thursday (March 14) that it plans to invest 41.7 billion yuan ($ 6.7 billion) in 4G technology this year. The plan is once again speculative, and China Mobile is finally preparing to launch an Apple iPhone that supports its network.

Put the iPhone aside first. China Mobile's large-scale 4G investment plan also hints that another trend will emerge in China: manufacturers are fiercely competing for multimode LTE chips.

Several chip manufacturers such as Qualcomm and Hisense are the most powerful towers on the China Mobile LTE investment boom. Hisense is inseparable from its customer Huawei.

Marvell Technology has proprietary and well-recognized multi-mode LTE modem chips, including TDD-LTE, FDD-LTE, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and GPRS 2G. The company also wants to become a major multi-mode LTE modem supplier in the Chinese market like several other manufacturers.

Although the industry often believes that Marvell's smartphone chip business depends on the future fate of BlackBerry (Marvell supports BlackBerry), the outside world has paid little attention to this American company's highly forward-looking strategy (its Santa Clara headquarters). In particular, Marvell's plan to bet on the Chinese LTE market is rarely discussed.

Li Chunchao, global vice president of Marvell ’s mobile business, said on Thursday: “Our five-mode LTE solution (starting into mobile phones) this year will surprise many people.”

In fact, Marvell has launched a multi-mode LTE micro modem-PXA1802. This product has passed the global certification process and can also be easily used with Marvell ’s competitor ’s application processor. For example, it is said that ZTE will launch a smartphone next quarter, combining Marvell's PXA1802 with a third-party application processor.

Marvell is also actively launching an SoC-not yet announced, combining its five-mode LTE modem with a quad-core application processor based on ARM A7 on a single chip. This will be the follow-up product of LTE version of PXA1088. PXA1088 is a four-core single-chip global standard mobile platform launched by Marvell at the World Mobile Communications Conference last month, and is geared towards the 3G market.

The above new SoC contains LTE function, so it is a five-mode solution, and plans to provide samples in the second quarter. "There will be mobile phones using this single-chip SoC before the end of this year," Li Chunchao said. He said that Marvell is confident that he can win the multimode LTE competition because "we have both a mature five-mode LTE modem and a mature application processor."

However, Marvell's five-mode LTE modem solution lacks CDMA. Li Chunchao's explanation is that too many operators around the world do not require CDMA. "Even in the United States, Verizon announced plans to switch from CDMA to LTE," he said. Li Chunchao said that although this transformation cannot be completed overnight, Marvell's five-mode LTE chip "can be used not only in China, but also in North America and Europe-basically in any region."

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