Marvell Technology Announces Initiation of a Quarterly Dividend; increases Share Repurchase Authorization by $500M to a total of $2.5B

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MRVL, a global leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced that it had declared the payment of its first quarterly dividend of $0.06 per share to be paid on July 11, 2012 to all shareholders of record as of June 21, 2012. In addition, Marvell also announced today that it has authorized an increase of up to an additional $500 million under the existing share repurchase program. The cumulative total authorized for share repurchases by Marvell now amounts to $2.5 billion. Marvell has repurchased approximately $1.7 billion of its previously authorized $2 billion program leaving about $348 million remaining in the current repurchase program. With the new $500 million authorization the total repurchase program increases to $2.5 billion and the amount remaining to $848 million. Marvell has repurchased and retired over 107 million shares, or about 16 percent, of the outstanding shares since the initial announcement of the share repurchase program in August 2010.