Hey, marvel at this. Looks like the little Sunnyvale wireless LAN company, Marvell, has come up with a smaller WLAN chip that uses 100% less power! That’s good news for smartphone and PDA users for sure!

Marvell is the leader in the embedded consumer WLAN market with more than 70% market share. Marvell revolutionized WLAN with the introduction of consumer-grade, embedded WLAN solutions for gaming, single and dual-mode mobile handsets, PDAs, digital cameras, MP3 players, and printing platforms. As a result, Marvell has enabled its tier-one OEM customers to successfully introduce industry-leading products into the gaming, cellphone, imaging, and PDA markets. Building on this track record of success, the Marvell 88W8686 represents three generations of leading-edge WLAN products, and significant investment in silicon and embedded software development.