Corsair today announced the new Performance Pro Series SSD line built around a Marvell SATA 6Gbps controller. These drives are available in 128GB and 256GB capacities, and according to Corsair's own internal testing, they're capable of delivering ATTO sequential read and write speeds of up to 515MB/s and 440MB/s, respectively. Corsair says you can expect similar performance when reading and writing compressed and non-compressed data.

Marvel on Monday introduced its Avastar 88W8764 wireless chip. According to Marvell, this is the first ever 802.11n, 4x4 single-die solution, which the company plans to market for use in enterprise access points, service provider gateways, high performance home routers, media and mobile servers, Digital TVs (DTVs), and set-top boxes.

"Wi-Fi has become the critical common link in today's mobile communications as users now expect and demand seamless, high-performance, robust and secure connectivity, zero latency and crystal clear communication between all their connected devices no matter where they go," said Weili Dai, Co-Founder of Marvell. "Marvell has a proven track record as the world leader in Wi-Fi for enterprise, consumer and mobile applications delivering robust, high performance and high bandwidth, highly secure and seamless wireless connectivity. I believe Marvell's groundbreaking 802.11n 4x4 Wi-Fi solution will fundamentally change the wireless landscape and truly enable the entire spectrum of always-on consumer products."

The new Avastar chips sports four independent transmit-receive RF chains with support for three Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) spatial streams for up to 450Mbps data rates, Marvell says.

No word yet on when the 4x4 part will start to show up in shipping devices.

The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization announced that it is working with Marvell to develop a series of low-cost handheld tablets based on the Marvell Moby reference design.

"While devices like eReaders and current tablets are terrific literary, media and entertainment platforms, they don't meet the needs of an educational model based on making things, versus just consuming them. Today's learning environments require robust platforms for computation, content creation and experimentation – and all that at a very low cost," said Dr. Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child. "Through our partnership with Marvell, OLPC will continue our focus on designing computers that enable children in the developing world to learn through collaboration, as well as providing connectivity to the world's body of knowledge.

OLCP's upcoming slate will consume just 1W of power (compared to 5W on the XO Laptop) and feature a multi-lingual soft keyboard with touch feedback. It will be powered by Marvell's ARMADA 610 application processor and able to crank out 1080p full-HD encode and decode. Other specs include 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM, GPS, 3D graphics, and full Adobe Flash support. No big surprise here, the upcoming tablet will be built around Google's Android platform.

No word on when it will launch, only that OLPC and Marvell are shooting for a sub-$100 price tag.