SAN JOSE, Calif., March 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated
Device Technology, Inc.® (IDT®) (NASDAQ:IDTI) today announced
it teamed with Prodrive Technologies to develop a new portfolio of
RapidIO-enabled switch appliances, delivering the ultra-low
latency, high bandwidth and energy efficiency needed for the
development of a variety of wireless and data center applications.
Featuring 100ns switch latency, the appliances are ideal for
designs in 5G, C-RAN, mobile edge computing, high-performance
computing, data analytics and financial trading.
The new products are the result of work the two companies have
conducted under the charter of the Open Compute Project (OPC) HPC
group, which IDT co-chairs. The switch appliances leverage IDT's
RapidIO technology, used in virtually every 4G LTE phone call and
download made today.
RapidIO switches are used to connect computing components
in complex processing-intensive systems, including SoCs, DSPs,
FPGAs, GPUs and custom ASICs. IDT has shipped more than 110 million
ports of its 10-20 Gbps RapidIO switches for use in production
networks. In addition to using the second-generation switches, the
new appliance portfolio will deploy IDT's recently announced RXS
family of RapidIO switches, which enable ports running at up to 50
Gbps with less than 1.2 W per port and 100ns latency.
"The single millisecond round trip latency requirements of 5G
infrastructure will place considerable demands on all computing
elements in the network, and these new RapidIO-based switching
appliances deliver a leading combination of latency and energy
efficiency," said Sailesh
Chittipeddi, IDT's CTO and vice president of global
operations. "This collaboration with Prodrive Technologies helps
meet the needs of 5G edge computing and C-RAN in the
telecommunications arena, as well as high-performance computing and
data center analytics."
Initial systems leveraging switch appliances with 38 ports
operating at 20 Gbps have been deployed in wireless C-RAN and data
analytics systems. Additional products, expected in the latter half
of 2016, leverage IDT's 50 Gbps-per-port RXS switch silicon
portfolio with 19 inch rack-mountable systems.
"The collaboration with IDT has been instrumental in winning
computing and telco customers using our RapidIO- based servers and
switch appliances," said Pieter
Janssen, CEO of Prodrive Technologies. "By combining IDT's
interconnect and market channels with the Prodrive team's
world-leading design and manufacturing done in the EU, we have
already deployed 10-20 Gbps versions of the switch portfolio in
tier 1 telco C-RAN programs as well as top-tier European
HPC-oriented data centers. The switch appliances, complete with
Prodrive's RapidIO-connected FPGA/Power/x86/ARM servers, are also
attractive for financial trading applications."
The switch appliances feature scalable modularity with 32 to 96
ports supporting clustering at rack or multi-rack scale for target
applications supporting heterogeneous processing with CPUs and
accelerators. Multiple switch appliances can be connected in a leaf
and spine network leveraging the RapidIO protocol to connect up to
64K processing nodes in a single network. Individual ports can be
configured to run at a variety of speeds, including 1, 2.5, 5, 10,
20, 40 and 50 Gbps, and thus tuned to optimize overall system power
consumption, depending on application workload.
"Taking an open and collaborative approach to developing
solutions for Open Compute and OpenPOWER is accelerating and
strengthening the development efforts of our broader open
community," said Calista Redmond,
president of the OpenPOWER Foundation. "IDT is at the forefront as
OpenPOWER grows capabilities into edge computing across system and
switch resources."
The RapidIO Switch appliance portfolio, along with RapidIO
servers with Power architecture and FPGAs, will be shown at the
OpenPOWER booth at the OCP Summit March
9 and 10 in San Jose. IDT
will present its RapidIO-based computing solutions in both the HPC
and Telco tracks at the OCP Summit on March
10.
The switch appliance products are available directly from
Prodrive Technologies:
http://prodrive-technologies.com/rapidio-gen2-38-ports-top-rack-switch-box/.
The 20 Gbps-per-port versions are available now. Lead
customers can contact Prodrive for customized 50 Gbps-per-port
solutions featuring IDT's RXS RapidIO switches.
About IDT
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level
solutions that optimize its customers' applications. IDT's
market-leading products in timing, wireless power transfer, serial
switching and interfaces are among the company's broad array of
complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing,
consumer, automotive and industrial segments. Headquartered
in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales
facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT
stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the
symbol "IDTI." Additional information about IDT is accessible
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IDT Press Contact:
Dean Solov
Public Relations Manager
Phone: (408) 284-2608
E-mail: dean.solov@idt.com
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