Cavium
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| Public (NASDAQ: CAVM) | |
| Industry | Processors and Boards |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, USA |
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Key people
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Syed B. Ali, President & CEO |
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Number of employees
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850[1] |
| Website | cavium.com |
Cavium is a fabless semiconductor company based in San Jose, California specializing in ARM-based and MIPS-based network, video and security processors and SoCs.[2] Cavium offers processor and board level products targeting routers, switches, appliances, storage and servers.
The company went public in May 2007 with about 175 employees. As of 2011, following numerous acquisitions, it had about 850 employees worldwide, of whom about 250 were located at company headquarters in San Jose.Cavium’ products have been designed-in by the World's leading networking, wireless, storage and security vendors. Cavium' design wins are at companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Citrix, F5 Networks Furukawa Electric, GE Fanuc, IBM, Juniper, Motorola ECC, Netgear, Nokia, Radisys, Sofaware, Sonicwall, and Qualcomm.Cavium has received numerous awards recognizing the product line and company performance, including 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 500,2013 Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company etc.[1]
Contents
Products
cnMIPS microarchitecture
The cnMIPS microarchitecture implements the MIPS64 instruction set.
cnMIPS II microarchitecture
cnMIPS III microarchitecture
OCTEON SoCs
| Model | Launch | Fab (nm) | cnMIPS I-cores | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Core clock (MHz) | L2 cache [KB] |
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| CN3005 | 2002 | 90 | 1 | 300-500 | 64 | |
| CN3010 | 1 | 128 | ||||
| CN3110 | 1 | 256 | ||||
| CN3120 | 2 | 256 | ||||
| CN3630 | 4 | 400-600 | 512 | |||
| CN3830 | 4 | 1024 | ||||
| CN3840 | 8 | 1024 | ||||
| CN3850 | 12 | 1024 | ||||
| CN3860 | 16 | 1024 | ||||
OCTEON Plus SoCs
| Model | Launch | Fab (nm) | cnMIPS I-cores | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Core clock (MHz) | L2 cache [KB] |
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| CN5010 | 90 | 1 | 300-700 | 128 | ||
| CN5020 | 2 | 128 | ||||
| CN5220 | 2 | 500-800 | 512 | |||
| CN5230 | 4 | 512 | ||||
| CN5430 | 4 | 500-700 | 1024 | |||
| CN5434 | 6 | 1024 | ||||
| CN5530 | 4 | 1024 | ||||
| CN5534 | 6 | 1024 | ||||
| CN5640 | 8 | 600-800 | 2048 | |||
| CN5645 | 10 | 2048 | ||||
| CN5650 | 12 | 2048 | ||||
| CN5740 | 8 | 2048 | ||||
| CN5745 | 10 | 2048 | ||||
| CN5750 | 12 | 2048 | ||||
| CN5830 | 4 | 2048 | ||||
| CN5840 | 8 | 2048 | ||||
| CN5850 | 12 | 2048 | ||||
| CN5860 | 16 | 2048 | ||||
OCTEON II SoCs
| Model | Launch | Fab (nm) | cnMIPS II-cores | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Core clock (MHz) | L2 cache [KB] |
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| CN6010 | 65 | 1 | 400-800 | 512 | ||
| CN6020 | 2 | 512 | ||||
| CN6120 | 2 | 600-1200 | 1024 | |||
| CN6130 | 4 | 1024 | ||||
| CN6220 | 2 | 800-1000 | 1024 | |||
| CN6230 | 4 | 1024 | ||||
| CN6320 | 2 | 800-1500 | 2048 | |||
| CN6330 | 4 | 2048 | ||||
| CN6335 | 6 | 2048 | ||||
| CN6635 | 6 | 2048 | ||||
| CN6645 | 10 | 2048 | ||||
| CN6740 | 8 | 4096 | ||||
| CN6760 | 16 | 4096 | ||||
| CN6860 | 16 | 800-1400 | 4096 | |||
| CN6870 | 24 | 4096 | ||||
| CN6880 | 32 | 4096 | ||||
OCTEON III SoCs
| Model | Launch | Fab (nm) | cnMIPS III-cores | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Core clock (MHz) | L2 cache [KB] |
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| CN7010 | 28 | 1 | 800-1200 | 512 | ||
| CN7020 | 2 | 512 | ||||
| CN7120 | 2 | 800-1600 | 512 | |||
| CN7125 | 3 | 512 | ||||
| CN7130 | 4 | 512 | ||||
| CN7760 | 16 | 1600-2500 | 8192 | |||
| CN7770 | 24 | 8192 | ||||
| CN7870 | 24 | 16384 | ||||
| CN7880 | 32 | 16384 | ||||
| CN7890 | 48 | 16384 | ||||
ThunderX SoCs
| Model | Launch | Fab (nm) | ARMv8-A-cores | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Core clock (MHz) | ||||
| CN87xx_xx | 2014 | 28 | 8-16 | Up to 2500 | |
| CN88xx_xx | 2014 | 24-48 | Up to 2500 | ||
History
Name change
On June 17, 2011 Cavium Networks, Inc. changed their name to Cavium, Inc.[9]
Acquisitions
| Date | Acquired company | Historical product line |
|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Star Semiconductor | ARM-based systems-on-chip processors[10] |
| December 2008 | W&W Communications | Video compression software and hardware[11] |
| December 2009 | MontaVista Software | Carrier Grade Linux compliant Linux & embedded systems[12] |
| January 2011[13] | Celestial Semiconductor | SoCs for digital media applications, including satellite, cable, and Internet TV[14] |
| July 2014 | Xpliant, Inc. | Switching and SDN Specialist[15] |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ New York Times Company Profile for Cavium Inc.
- ↑ Cavium.com: Cavium Octeon SoCs Product Table
- ↑ Cavium.com: Cavium Octeon Plus SoCs Product Table
- ↑ Cavium.com: Cavium Octeon II SoCs Product Table
- ↑ Cavium.com: Cavium Octeon III SoCs Product Table
- ↑ Cavium.com: Cavium Octeon III SoCs Product CN77XX Table
- ↑ Cavium.com ThunderX product page
- ↑ http://biz.yahoo.com/e/110620/cavm8-k.html[dead link]
- ↑ Company press release: Cavium Networks Completes Acquisition of Taiwan-Based Star Semiconductor
- ↑ Company press release: Cavium Networks Completes Acquisition of W&W Communications
- ↑ Company press release: Cavium Networks Completes Acquisition of MontaVista Software
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- ↑ Company press release: Cavium to Acquire Switching and SDN Specialist Xpliant to Accelerate Deployment of Software Defined Networks
