SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium™, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data
center, wired and wireless networking is partnering with IBM for
next generation platforms by joining OpenCAPI, an initiative
founded by IBM, Google, AMD and others. OpenCAPI provides
high-bandwidth, low latency interface optimized to connect
accelerators, IO devices and memory to CPUs. With this announcement
Cavium plans to bring its leadership in server IO and security
offloads to next generation platforms that support the OpenCAPI
interface.
Traditional system architectures are becoming a bottleneck for
new classes of data-centric applications that require faster access
to peripheral resources like memory, I/O and accelerators. For the
efficient deployment and success of such applications, it is
imperative to put the compute power closer to the data. OpenCAPI, a
mature and complete specification enables such a server design,
that can increase datacenter server performance by several times,
enabling corporate and cloud data centers to speed up big data,
machine learning, analytics, and other emerging workloads. Capable
of 25Gbits per second data rate, OpenCAPI delivers the best in
class performance, enabling the maximum utilization of high speed
I/O devices like Cavium Fibre Channel adapters, low latency
Ethernet NICs, programmable SmartNIC and security solutions.
Cavium delivers the industry's most comprehensive family of I/O
adapters and network acclerators which have the potential to be
seamlessly inegrated into OpenCAPI based systems. Cavium's
portfolio includes FastLinQ® Ethernet Adapters, Converged
Networking Adapters, LiquidIO® SmartNICs, Fibre Channel Adapters
and NITROX® Security Accelerators that cover the entire spectrum
for data-centric application connectivity, offload and accleration
requirements.
"We welcome Cavium to the OpenCAPI consortium to fuel innovation
for today's data-intensive cognitive workloads," said Bob Picciano, Senior Vice President, IBM
Cognitive Systems. "Together, we will tap into Cavium's
next-generation technology, including networking and accelerators,
and work in tandem with other partners' systems technology to
unleash high-performance capabilities for our clients' data center
workloads."
"We are excited to be a part of the OpenCAPI consortium. As our
partnership with IBM continues to grow, we see more synergies in
high speed communication and Artificial Intelligence applications,"
said Syed Ali, founder and CEO of
Cavium. "We look forward to working with IBM to enable
exponential performance gains for these applications."
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of
infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching,
connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium's highly integrated
multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions
across low to high performance points enabling secure and
intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service
Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported
by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application
stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is
headquartered in San Jose, CA with
design centers in California,
Massachusetts, India, Israel, China
and Taiwan.
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