Date: 08/08/2011

Cavium shipped its 10-core OCTEON II processors to OEMs

Cavium, Inc. has announced initial shipments of OCTEON II CN66XX processors to multiple OEM customers, which integrates up to 10 MIPS64 cores and hardware acceleration for networking, mobile infrastructure, control-plane and data-center applications . The CN66XX is pin and software compatible with Cavium's popular OCTEON II CN63XX processor with 1.67x performance increase, enabling increased scalability with seamless hardware and software re-use, as per Cavium.

"Cavium's OCTEON II processor architecture based on physical 64-bit cores and faster caches provides higher overall CoreMark industry-standard benchmark compute performance along with lower latency and greater determinism for packet processing," said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at The Linley Group. "These important attributes make the CN66XX a compelling solution for a wide range of networking, security and mobile OEM customers."

"With the CN66XX, we now offer 2.5x the number of full 64-bit CPU cores and 2x the GHz versus alternatives within an extremely compact and power-efficient form-factor," said YJ Kim, General Manager of Cavium's Infrastructure Processor Group. "The full spectrum of Cavium's integrated third-generation hardware acceleration, including our superior and deterministic DPI processing, augments our leading CPU performance. We are pleased with the market adoption of the CN66XX which enables a variety of winning solutions in next generation mobile infrastructure, cloud and networking applications."

OCTEON Processors have been chosen by all major tier-1 OEMs for Router, Security, Mobile infrastructure equipment, and Storage, Cloud Computing, Adapter and Control Plane applications.