Marvells Innovative SheevaPlug Platform Wins Science Mags Best of What's New Award

Marvell’s Innovative SheevaPlug™ Platform Wins Science Mag’s ‘Best of What's New’ Award

According to the world's largest science and technology magazine, the Marvell® SheevaPlug™ Plug Computer platform is one of the 100 most innovative products of 2009: Popular Science (www.popsci.com) magazine selected SheevaPlug for its  "Best of What's New" award in the Computing category for its compact yet powerful form factor. The Plug Computer platform gives developers unlimited opportunity to create applications, services, and functionality to serve consumers and all classes of business.

According to Dr. Simon Milner, General Manager of the Enterprise Business Unit, Consumer and Communications Business Group at Marvell, the SheevaPlug is sparking a revolution in computing and application development: “Developers today are creating everything from data analysis programs, media management, home and office automation systems on the SheevaPlug platform - a palm-sized, always-on, easily-accessed platform that uses less than two watts of power”, Milner said. “We are thrilled that SheevaPlug been recognized by the editors at Popular Science. The “Best of What's New” award is the magazine's top honour and the 100 winners - chosen from among thousands of entrants - represent the highest level of achievement in their fields."

Marvell’s SheevaPlug supports almost limitless applications. As a Plug Computer platform it is small enough to plug directly into a wall socket and is designed to draw so little power that it can be left on all of the time, making high-performance, always connected, and environmentally friendly computing readily available for developers and end-users. The Plug Computer ecosystem is rapidly expanding to include a full value chain of product partners, application developers and educational institutions. For more information about Plug Computing visit http://www.plugcomputer.org/.

For details on the SheevaPlug Development Kit available from Marvell click here