NXP® Unveils Highest Performance Layerscape® Networking and Data Center Offload System-on-Chip Solution
October 04 2017 - 12:00PM
LINLEY PROCESSOR CONFERENCE -- NXP
Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), a worldwide leader in advanced
secure connectivity solutions, today announced the highest
performance member of the Layerscape family, the LX2160A SoC. The
LX2160A is specifically designed to enable challenging
high-performance network applications, network edge compute, and
data center offloads. Trusted and secure execution of virtualized
cloud workloads at the edge is driving new distributed computing
paradigms.
The LX2160A features sixteen high-performance Arm Cortex®-A72
cores running at over 2 GHz in a sub 30-watt power envelope,
supporting both the 100 Gbit/s Ethernet and PCIe Gen4 interconnect
standards. In addition, it provides L2 switching at wire rate and
includes acceleration for data compression and 50 Gbit/s IPSec
cryptography. The NXP Layerscape processor family, stretching from
single-core sub-1W processors to the 16-core LX2160A, provides the
broadest family of 64-bit Arm processors available1.
“Edge processing will drive the next phase of networking,
computing and IoT infrastructure growth,” said Tareq Bustami,
senior vice president and general manager at NXP Semiconductors.
“As workloads move from the cloud to the edge they benefit from
reduced latencies, greater security and improved resiliency. The
performance and the bandwidth integrated into the LX2160A provides
an ideal platform for a variety of networking, data analytics and
data processing workloads.”
“Network service providers, cloud companies, and industrial IoT
companies are developing edge computing, drawn to the technology’s
ability to deliver cloud-computing services at lower latency and
with greater privacy, while consuming less WAN bandwidth,” said Bob
Wheeler, principal analyst with The Linley Group. “Integrating 16
cores and 100 Gbit/s Ethernet, NXP’s Layerscape LX2160A processor
helps the Arm ecosystem meet the requirement of high-performance
edge-computing applications.”
NXP supports and drives the rich Arm ecosystem for
virtualization, building on the foundations of open source projects
for cloud and network function virtualization including Open
Daylight, OpenStack, and OP-NFV®. NXP Arm processors incorporate
hardware for virtualization technologies such as KVM and
Linux® containers and hardware acceleration of
network virtualization. NXP also supports industry-standard APIs
for virtualization, including DPDK, OVS, and Virtio, and standard
enterprise Linux distributions, such as Debian and Ubuntu.
Key elements of the Layerscape LX2160A SoC can be found at
www.nxp.com/LX2160. Silicon samples and a reference board will be
available in Q1 2018.
1 A Guide to Multicore Processors, Fourth Edition; 2017. The
Linley Group
About NXP Semiconductors NXP Semiconductors
N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure
for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier,
better and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity
solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving innovation in
the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and
smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of
combined experience and expertise, the company has 31,000 employees
in more than 33 countries and posted revenue of $9.5 billion in
2016. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
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For more information, please contact:
AmericasTate
Tran Tel:
+1 408 802 0602Email: tate.tran@nxp.com
EuropeMartijn van der LindenTel: +31 6 10914896Email:
martijn.van.der.linden@nxp.com
Greater China / AsiaEsther ChangTel: +886 2 8170 9990Email:
esther.chang@nxp.com
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