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Marvell (News - Alert), a company specializing in integrated silicon solutions, has launched four new TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) smart devices by ZTE (News - Alert), including two smartphones, a mobile tablet and a mobile hot spot device.

In a release Weili Dai, Marvell’s Co-Founder said, “The ZTE launch is the latest validation of our long-standing strategy to make TD-SCDMA a world-class standard for very affordable smart devices and ZTE's products deliver everything and more that consumers want from their smartphones, tablets and mobile hot spot devices today. We're gratified by our role in making the TD-SCDMA vision a reality.”

“I’m very proud that our China based engineering team delivered this world-class industry-first single chip solution designed to deliver high performance processing, dynamic multimedia for mobile TV, live video, 3D gaming and many exciting new mobile applications. We look forward to announcing more customer products in the near future leveraging this innovative technology that is rapidly gaining market share in China,” added Dai.

According to officials, the four devices are customized for China Mobile’s (News - Alert) 3G TD-SCDMA market and will feature Marvell’s TD-SCDMA single chip solution and advanced mobile 802.11n Wi-Fi technology with beam-forming capability.

Marvell and ZTE have joined hands to deliver cost-effective smart devices to Chinese end users that are suitable for China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA standard. The companies have together developed end-to-end TD-HSPA⁺, passive optical network (PON), network switches, WLAN and CPUs. They plan to develop creative mobile phone solutions and emerging mobile Internet applications in future, revealed officials.

He Shiyou (News - Alert), executive vice president of ZTE Corporation and President of ZTE Mobile Terminal Business added that ZTE plans to ship 12 million units in 2011. This will make the company one of the top five global providers of Android smart phones and the largest provider of smart devices in China for which ZTE has collaborated with Marvell.

Marvell specializes in the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. Its product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions required to power communications infrastructure of enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking.

In related news Mindspeed Technologies (News - Alert), a supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, announced that ZTE Corporation, has selected Mindspeed’s Comcerto 300xv voice-over-IP or “VoIP” processor for use in ZTE’s xPON access products.