Marvell 88SX5080: 8-port Serial ATA controller
Serial ATA producst continue to arrive. Marvell annoucned 8-potr Marvell 88SX5080 Serial ATA controller. It´s designed for high-end systems and SANs, server and workstation RAID arrays.
In the press release the company reported that using eight 1.5 Gbps, Marvell 88SX5080 provides 12 Gbps throughput. Adapter features 133 MHz 64-bit PCI-X bus. The company claims the throughtput to be even higher than that of Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop.
Additionally it supports a complex instruction pipeline with EDMA (Enhanced DMA) and SCSI-like software interface.
Marvell 88SX5080 samples, packaged into 320-pin BGA (Ball Grid Array), are avialable for $50 per unit in over 100,000 unit consignments.
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