TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud,
wired and wireless networking, today announced collaboration with
Pegatron Corporation, a leading DMS for high performance server
platforms, for the development of workload optimized server
platforms based on Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX product
family.
Pegatron designs and manufactures high-performance and
innovative server platforms worldwide, and is a recognized leader
in datacenter server design. Their award-winning design philosophy
is based on a clear understanding and focus on customer
requirements, and delivery of cutting-edge technology to provide
competitive advantage. Pegatron customers worldwide use these
server designs for production in high-performance computing,
datacenter and cloud environments, and will now have access to
server designs based on the Cavium ThunderX 64-bit ARMv8
processor.
Cloud and datacenter customers demand computing platforms that
deliver improved Total Cost of Ownership, while providing similar
management and development environments to existing
infrastructure. Pegatron's ThunderX-based product portfolio
is designed to combine the workload-optimized high-performance of
Cavium's 48-core ThunderX ARM processors with energy efficient
board and chassis designs, and drive significant advantages in
customer TCO.
The ThunderX product family provides best-in-class 64-bit ARMv8
data center and cloud processors, offering an unprecedented level
of integration and industry leading SoC performance. With high
performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations,
very high memory bandwidth, integrated hardware accelerators, and
scalable feature-rich I/Os, this family of processors delivers
best-in-class performance per dollar and performance per watt.
The ThunderX family includes multiple SKUs that enable
servers that are optimized for compute, storage, network and
security workloads in the cloud, and is fully compliant with ARMv8
architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA.
"Pegatron focuses on meeting customer requirements with
innovative platforms delivering excellent TCO," said Jay Huang, Pegatron Corporation general
manager. "We have designed our new ThunderX-based platforms
to deliver competitive advantage for HPC, big data and other
hyperscale workloads. We're committed to providing
competitive advantage to our customers through leading-edge
technology, and delivery of these new ARM-based servers in Q2 2015
is a key part of our strategy."
"Demand for Cavium ThunderX workload-optimized ARMv8 processors
is highlighted by the continued growth in system partners using our
products," said Steve Cumings,
Director, Market Development for Cavium's Data Center Processor
Group. "With up to 48-cores, large memory capacity and integrated
accelerators and Ethernet fabric, high-performance ThunderX SOCs
allow workload-optimized server designs that deliver powerful TCO
advantages in both one-socket and two-socket configurations.
We're delighted to work with Pegatron and enable datacenter
platforms optimized for cloud, big data, large-scale web and
storage environments."
About Pegatron
Pegatron is a leading DMS (Design, Manufacturing Service)
company with extensive experience and proven capabilities in design
innovations, product development, vertical integration and
after-sale services. Renowned for its solid foundation of research
and development in its core technologies, Pegatron boasts a
diversified product line including server, notebook PCs, desktop
PCs, tablets, motherboards, broadband products, smartphones, game
consoles etc. With worldwide manufacturing and service sites,
Pegatron offers innovative service to customers at various
locations. The Company also places great emphasis on development of
both software and hardware technologies to provide customers with
total solutions and high value-added services. For more
information, please visit: http://www.pegatroncorp.com.
About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing for networking,
communications and the digital home. Cavium offers a broad
portfolio of integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in
performance from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure,
intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center,
broadband/consumer and access and service provider equipment.
Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide
operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other
services. Cavium's principal office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in
California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com.
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technologies; the rate at which our new products are adopted; rate
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technological advances; pricing pressures; general economic
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information about these and other risks that may impact Cavium's
business are set forth in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form
10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
May 4, 2015. All forward-looking
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to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this
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