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VIXEL ANNOUNCES USE OF MARVELL'S HIGH SPEED SERDES TECH

Vixel Corporation, a leading provider of storage networking technologies, has announced the completion of a new technology development agreement with Marvell Semiconductor Inc to use Marvell's High Speed SERDES Technology. Drawing upon its strengths and capabilities in Fibre Channel technology, Vixel will use Marvell's state-of-the-art semiconductor SERDES technology to deploy next generation storage products that address the requirements of leading storage solution providers.

As a global semiconductor provider with a diverse portfolio of advanced technology offerings that include extreme broadband solutions for the communications industry such as low power multi Gigabits physical layer technologies and storage infrastructure technologies such as Serial ATA (SATA), Marvell contributes both its technologies and its ready access to world-class semiconductor design capabilities to this joint development. Vixel will draw from its Fibre Channel expertise, its award-winning InSpeed embedded switching technology and its next generation switching architectures to work with Marvell on developing new highly integrated solutions that improve storage system performance and RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) characteristics, and lower storage system costs.

James McCluney, president and CEO of Vixel said, "Marvell's technology portfolio is at the leading edge of the industry, particularly it has the best-in-class multi Gigabit physical layer SERDES cores, crucial for storage networking applications. With our two companies' complimentary world-class technologies, Vixel will solidify its embedded storage roadmap to ensure that we meet the future requirements of our leading storage provider customers."

"We are delighted that Vixel has chosen Marvell as its SERDES technology partner for its future generations of storage products," said Weili Dai, Marvell's executive vice president and General Manager of Communication Business Group. "Marvell's SERDES technology continues to set new industry standards with superior performance and innovative feature set. Working with Vixel adds a new dimension to our portfolio of physical layer products."

Jim McCluney added, "The Embedded Storage Switch market is evolving rapidly and generating new market opportunities for Vixel. We have an aggressive roadmap to achieve to meet the needs of our top tier customers, and we believe this partnership will accelerate these solutions into the marketplace."

About Marvell

Marvell is a leading global semiconductor provider of complete broadband communications solutions for the data communications and storage markets. The Company's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the terms "Company" and "Marvell" refer to Marvell Technology Group Ltd and its subsidiaries, including Marvell Semiconductor Inc (MSI), Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (MAPL), Marvell Japan KK, Marvell Taiwan Ltd, Marvell International Ltd (MIL), Galileo Technology Ltd, and SysKonnect GmbH. MSI is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and designs, develops and markets products on behalf of MIL and MAPL. MSI may be contacted at 408-222-2500 or at www.marvell.com.

About Vixel Corporation

Vixel Corporation is creating disruptive storage networking technologies that deliver easily managed, easily integrated, high performance interconnectivity at highly competitive prices. Vixel's award winning InSpeed technology is a unique switching architecture designed from the ground-up as an effortlessly managed storage interconnect solution. Optimized for the needs and price requirements of storage and server suppliers, InSpeed has been designed to overcome cost/performance barriers inhibiting broad storage networking adoption. Vixel is an industry leader in providing a new breed of embedded storage switch products that improve data access and availability to business applications -- regardless of scale. Vixel also offers a new generation of high-performance storage switches designed for businesses of all sizes that need affordable and simple Storage Area Networks (SANs). As a leading provider of SAN solutions, Vixel's comprehensive portfolio of technology offerings also includes multivendor certified solutions and Fibre Channel switches and hubs that deliver reliable, interoperable solutions to its customers and partners. Vixel products and technologies are used by major system suppliers including Avid Technology, BlueArc, HP, Lucent, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems and are available worldwide through its network of value-added resellers, alliances and OEMs. Vixel is an ISO 9001 certified company.

For more information, visit Vixel's Web site at www.vixel.com. Vixel Corporation is headquartered at 11911 North Creek Parkway South, Bothell, Washington 98011 and can be contacted by phone at 425-806-5509 or e-mail at marketing@vixel.com.

Contact: Ed Luboja of Vixel Corporation, 425-806-4530, eluboja@vixel.com.