Broadcom Expands Tomahawk 4 Family, Increasing Leadership in the World’s Highest Bandwidth Switch/Routing Silicon
December 02 2020 - 8:00AM
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today a major expansion of
its 25.6 terabits per second StrataXGS® Tomahawk® 4 family of
switch/router chips. Broadcom also announced that the first member
of the Tomahawk 4 family, Tomahawk-50G (BCM56990), is now shipping
in volume. These products demonstrate the benefits of Broadcom’s
strategy of providing optimized chips for specific network needs,
delivering twice the efficiency of any other alternative.
The only 25.6Tbps networking silicon available today, the
Tomahawk4-50G switch/router began sampling in December 2019 and in
less than one year is now shipping in volume. With 512 lanes of 50G
PAM4 SerDes, Tomahawk4-50G provides twice the bandwidth of
competing solutions. Implemented in 7nm process technology, it
provides the world’s lowest power per bit of throughput, enabling
significant savings in operational expense and allowing for
ultra-high density network equipment.
Building on this momentum, Broadcom is expanding the Tomahawk4
family to include two new chips:
- Tomahawk4-100G: 25.6Tbps, 256 x 100G PAM4
- Tomahawk4-12.8T: 12.8Tbps, 128 x 100G PAM4
With the addition of these new products, Broadcom has extended
its lead in silicon optimized for hyperscale data centers. No other
company offers the same variety of bandwidth levels and physical
interfaces. Additionally, all members of the Tomahawk4 family of
switch/router chips offer the benefits of:
- Fully-shared packet buffers, providing up to 10x the burst
absorption versus alternatives.
- Twice the efficiency, on a per-chip basis, versus any other
switch/routing silicon, enabling a 75 percent reduction in system
power and latency.
- Common APIs shared with all other Broadcom switch/routing
silicon families, enabling customers to choose the best
architecture for a particular application, while leveraging their
software development efforts throughout their networks.
“This expanded Tomahawk franchise underscores Broadcom’s
strategy of building best-in-breed switching and routing silicon
for specific network applications,” said Ram Velaga, senior vice
president and general manager, Core Switching Group, Broadcom. “Not
only does Broadcom offer optimized solutions for hyperscale,
service provider, and enterprise networks, even within the chip
families provided for hyperscale data centers, we have built
dedicated chips to cover a range of SerDes speeds, bandwidth
levels, and feature capabilities. No other company has an
equivalent level of investment, IP availability, and velocity of
execution. The result is that Broadcom consistently delivers the
industry’s highest performance and lowest power.”
“By advancing the 25.6Tbps Tomahawk 4 from samples to volume
shipments in less than one year, Broadcom has once again
demonstrated its ability to deliver first on the highest
performance switch/router silicon,” said Bob Wheeler, principal
analyst, The Linley Group. “The expansion of the Tomahawk family to
include 50G PAM4 and 100G PAM4 SerDes variants means that
hyperscalers can fully optimize their data centers with their
choice of optical and electrical interconnect.”
To learn more about the Broadcom Tomahawk family click here. For
more information on all Broadcom products please visit
www.broadcom.com.
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networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and
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