Visiting Marvell in Yoqne'am

Since I'm spending the summer in Israel, I used the opportunity yesterday to visit the Marvell site in Yoqne'am where the majority of the NAS software engineering team is located. They first gave me a tour through the hardware labs which I found incredibly interesting. It's amazing what equipment those folks use to perform QA tests of new chips, how they can reverse engineer chips and even make some modifications to test their theories about hardware bugs. I found it really amazing and at the same time felt glad that changing things in software is so easy.

Later they showed me the software lab where they had an exhibition of various devices based on the Orion chip, including NAS devices, but also printers, wifi APs and game machines. They also told me some details of their product roadmap but unfortunately I cannot share that information. The only thing I can say is that we'll see a lot of new devices to which it would be cool to port Debian.