MILPITAS, Calif., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI
Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced a significant enhancement
of its proven Axxia® platform that dramatically accelerates
performance for next-generation wireless infrastructure. LSI will
bring ARM® processors, long the standard for power efficiency in
mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, to mobile networks.
The new wireless platform will be the first to combine the latest
cores from ARM with hardware accelerators, resulting in a system on
a chip uniquely suited to building intelligent, heterogeneous
networks.
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The new Axxia wireless platform will offer:
- Energy-efficient, low-power multicore processors for base
stations and wireless infrastructure
- Scalable performance to contend with massive data growth driven
by smartphones, tablets and cloud-based services
- Embedded intelligence to identify traffic, recognize
applications and deliver the right content at the right time,
enabling real-time services including mobile video
- Extensive third-party tools and support through the ARM
community and LSI® networking ecosystem
"Consumers worldwide have an insatiable appetite for mobile
broadband services. Operators need intelligent solutions to deliver
exponentially growing traffic without exponentially growing their
costs and power consumption," said Jim
Anderson, senior vice president and general manager,
Networking Components Division, LSI. "With solutions ranging from
dual core to 16 or more cores, the Axxia wireless platform delivers
the intelligence and performance to accelerate mobile networks from
small cells to macro base stations."
The Axxia platform combines the programmable flexibility of
general-purpose processors with the deterministic performance of
special-purpose accelerators from LSI. Based on a coherent
multiprocessor interconnect and LSI Virtual Pipeline™ technology,
Axxia processors accelerate control and data plane processing while
lowering costs and power consumption.
"ARM is excited to be working with LSI to help OEMs and network
operators meet the challenges of next-generation infrastructure in
a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner," said Lance Howarth, executive vice president of
marketing, ARM. "The launch of the Axxia platform is a compelling
proof point of how LSI is using ARM IP to solve these challenges by
applying the powerful combination of ARM Cortex-A series processors
and CoreLink® system IP with LSI's expertise in the infrastructure
space."
LSI will showcase its portfolio of networking acceleration
solutions at the LSI hospitality suite AV76 at the GSMA Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona,
Spain, February 27 to March 1.
The LSI stand is located midway along the Avenue near the crosswalk
between the Courtyard and Hall 8 of the exhibition.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) designs semiconductors and software
that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile
networks. Our technology is the intelligence critical to enhanced
application performance, and is applied in solutions created in
collaboration with our partners. More information is available at
www.lsi.com.
LSI, the LSI and design logo, Axxia and Virtual Pipeline are
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