Marvell Technology Group Ltd. announced that the Marvell ARMADA 1500 series System-on-Chip platform will power the NeoTV PRIME with Google TV from Netgear Inc. By integrating high-performance Smart TV technology with NETGEAR's core competency in broadband switching, NeoTV PRIME with Google TV represents another major step forward for NETGEAR's offering of comprehensive, client-based multimedia streaming products for immersive, connected-home entertainment. Marvell will demonstrate the device at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Booth No. 31423.

Aiming to deliver endless entertainment in one place, NeoTV PRIME with Google TV is designed to offer live TV, streaming, Web and apps from one sleek device. The product seamlessly blends the best of Google TV, such as search, Play, Chrome, PrimeTime and My Media, with traditional broadcast and makes the whole experience controllable via Bluetooth remote or from the Google TV remote control app for smartphones. Other product highlights include on-screen setup and an intuitive and customizable home screen.

The ARMADA 1500 Series SoC platform contains Marvell's highest-performing ARM v7-compatible PJ4B SMP super-scalar dual-core CPU. The chip is designed to enable PC-like processing power to support Web browsing with support for Flash and other key technologies, with the aid of more than 6,000 Dhrystone MIPS of computing horsepower, FPU v3.0, 512 KB of L2 cache and NEON. With advanced, cellphone-like power management, the platform is also incredibly energy, efficient.

The ARMADA 1500 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.