FRANKFURT, Germany,
June 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products
that enables intelligent processing for enterprise, cloud, data
center, wired and wireless networking today announced collaboration
with Microsemi Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor
solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and
performance, to deliver the HBA 1000 Host Bus Adaptor for Cavium's
ThunderX processor family.
The HBA 1000 Series, part of the Microsemi Smart Storage
Solutions Family, provides a robust and stable solution that can
handle the toughest system workloads and configurations. It is
fully compatible with all existing and future Microsemi HBA, RAID
and Expander solutions. Available in five different 12Gb/s
configurations with up to 16 internal or 16 external SAS/SATA
ports, the HBA 1000 Series offers the highest port count in a
low-profile, MD2 form factor and 60 percent less power consumption
than competing HBAs.
The ThunderX product family is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8-A server
processor for next generation data center and cloud applications,
and features high performance custom cores, single and dual socket
configurations, high memory bandwidth and large memory capacity.
The product family also includes integrated hardware accelerators,
integrated feature rich high bandwidth network and storage IO,
fully virtualized core and IO, and scalable high bandwidth, low
latency Ethernet fabric, which affords ThunderX best-in-class
performance per dollar and watt. They are fully compliant with
ARMv8-A architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA and SBBR
standards, and widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor
and Software tool and application vendors.
"Microsemi works closely with our ecosystem partners to deliver
resilient, efficient and easy-to-use storage connectivity solutions
for worldwide data centers," said Pete
Hazen, vice president of Microsemi's scalable solutions
business unit. "Working with the Cavium team, we successfully
developed an initial driver for our 12Gb/s SAS HBA 1000 solution
that supports the Cavium ARM-based ThunderX server platforms and
enables high performance and power efficiency needs for today's
data centers solutions such as the Cavium CloudScale
RackTM."
"Microsemi's storage solutions are an outstanding complement to
the compute performance that ThunderX delivers today," said
Larry Wikelius, Vice President
Software Ecosystem and Solutions, Cavium. "This collaboration with
Microsemi will provide an even greater choice for system partners
and end users as they deploy ThunderX based storage intensive
applications into the most demanding data center
environments. Microsemi is a great addition to our ThunderX
partner community."
About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data
center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications.
Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible
processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that
enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise,
data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider
equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners
that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and
other services. Cavium's principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team
locations in California,
Massachusetts, India, and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com
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