Cavium and Partners to Demonstrate ThunderX Servers at ISC 2016

ThunderX system partners, high performance I/O partners and software partners showing platforms in various form factors supporting HPC and hyperscale cloud applications

San Jose, CA and Frankfurt, Germany, June 20, 2016 –Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, is demonstrating ThunderX-based work load optimized server platforms in various form factors for High Performance Compute and hyperscale data centers at the International Super Computing Conference (ISC) 2016 from Monday, June 20th to Wednesday, June 22nd in Frankfurt, Germany.

ThunderX is Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8 server processor family for next generation high performance computing and hyperscale workloads. With up to 48 high-performance custom cores, single and dual socket capability, high memory bandwidth and capacity, and integrated hardware accelerators, ThunderX enables best-in-class ARMv8 performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes multiple SKUs that enable servers optimized for compute, storage, network and security workloads in the HPC cloud, and is widely supported by industry-leading OS, hypervisor, software tool and application vendors.

Show Highlights and Demonstrations
Cavium executives will be available to discuss the broad range of HPC solutions, including the company’s most recent announcements. ThunderX platforms from various ODM & OEM partners will be on display at Cavium booth #1105 along with presentation sessions at ISC 2016.  Specific activities include:

• ThunderX®: 64–bit ARMv8 based SoC family of workload optimized processors with a range of SKUs and form factors optimized for high performance computing, including grid computing, heterogeneous computing, storage, secure compute and networking specific workloads
• Live demo of ThunderX processors deployed on Cavium‘s single and dual socket reference platforms.
• ThunderX2™: Update on Cavium’s next generation 64–bit ARMv8 based SoC family
• Cavium’s ecosystem partners will be demonstrating ThunderX based platforms, including E4, SUSE, Allinea, Gigabyte, Mellanox, NVIDIA, Bright Computing, Penguin Computing, and NAG.
• On Monday, June 20th at 1:30 pm, Gopal Hegde, Vice President/General Manager of Data Center Processor Group at Cavium, will be presenting on ThunderX advantages for the HPC market at the ISC Vendor Showdown.
• On Wednesday June 22nd at 1:40 pm, Larry Wikelius, VP Software Ecosystem and Solutions Group, Cavium, will be presenting at the Exhibitor Forum on ThunderX leadership role in the HPC ecosystem.

To schedule a meeting at ISC, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter ISC 2016 Meeting Request in the subject line.

About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance up to 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data center, broadband 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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Cavium Showcases Key Technology Components for Cloud Datacenters and NFV at Open Networking Summit 2016

DemonstratesThunderX®,OCTEON Fusion-M®, Liquid IO® and XPliant® Switch

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will demonstrate several key enabling Cloud Datacenter and NFV technologies including XPliant switches, Workload Optimized® ThunderX Cloud RAN ARM v8 COTS server, Liquid IO® NFV Offload NIC cards and OCTEON Fusion-M® Smart Radio Head at Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2016.

The industry trend towards Network Virtualization and away from fixed function switching and compute functions is accelerating and enabling a new class of applications and services. Key components for the success of Cloud Datacenters and NFV include programmable SDN switches, seamless virtualization and disaggregation of certain functions to ensure scalability and flexibility.

Cavium will showcase multiple components and use cases at ONS.

CAVIUM ONS Booth (#24):	Xplaint® Switch running Open Source Software
	Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch family is highly programmable using a XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) enables very high level of table flexibility and extensible header support without any compromise in throughput and ideally for NFV and SDN.
	Liquid IO® for NFV Offload and Virtualization
	Liquid IO intelligent server NIC cards offloading multiple functions including IPSec, OVS, Service Function Chaining and DPI.
ON.Lab ONS Booth (#25o):	In conjunction with ON.Lab will demonstrate disaggregated vBBU and C-RAN Live Demo powered by ThunderX and OCTEON Fusion-M
	3GPP compliant, disaggregated, and virtualized mobile infrastructure using ThunderX Workload Optimized® servers and OCTEON Fusion-M Baseband Processor. Integrated with ONOS M-CORD will demonstrate the benefits of SDN and NFV in mobile infrastructure.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at ONS 2016.

About Cavium, Inc.
Cavium (NASDAQ: CAVM) 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 and 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 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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Cavium's ThunderX Workload Optimized Processors receive Readers' and Editors' Choice Award for Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch from HPCwire

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov 17, 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 that its flagship 48 core ARMv8-A based ThunderX workload optimized processor has won the coveted Readers' and Editors' Choice Award for Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch to be presented at the 2015 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC15), in Austin, Texas.  The list of winners were revealed at the HPCwire booth at the event, and on the HPCwire website, located at www.HPCwire.com.

The coveted annual HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards are determined through a nomination and voting process with the global HPCwire community, as well as selections from the HPCwire editors. The awards are an annual feature of the publication and constitute prestigious recognition from the HPC community. These awards are revealed each year to kick off the annual supercomputing conference, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis.

ThunderX is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8 server processor family for next generation Cloud and high performance computing - workloads. With up to 48 high-performance custom cores, single and dual socket capability, high memory bandwidth and capacity, and integrated hardware accelerators. ThunderX enables best-in-class ARMv8 performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes multiple SKUs that enable servers optimized for compute, storage, network and security workloads in the cloud, and is widely supported by industry-leading OS, hypervisor, software tool and application vendors. ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads suc as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

Cavium is also exhibiting at the SC15 Conference this week enabling the entire HPC community to experience directly the opportunities with ThunderX that include OEM system partners, software tools and software solutions.  Cavium is exhibiting in booth 481.
Supporting Quotes

"We are honored that ThunderX has been recognized by the Global HPC Community in this prestigious category," said Gopal Hegde, Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Processor Group at Cavium. "This award is yet another indicator of the tremendous momentum and recognition that Cavium has created in the server market with ThunderX.  We continue to expand our system and software partners to accelerate end user delivery and deployment in some of the leading HPC customer environments worldwide."

"HPCwire readers are among the most informed in the HPC community and these awards are ultimately given to the organizations that are making the greatest impact in advancing technology and humanity itself through high performance computing," said Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire.  "The HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards send a strong message of support and appreciation from those in the global HPC community. We are proud to be able to recognize these efforts each your and our congratulations go out to all the winners."


About Cavium, Inc.
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud, 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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Cavium Unveils Flash Support for the Cavium ThunderX™ Processor Family

ThunderX processors with SanDisk Flash solutions will accelerate performance for HPC and Hyperscale workloads

Frankfurt, Germany, July 13, 2015 – 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  support for SanDisk flash memory solutions  with Cavium’s 64-bit ThunderX processor family, to accelerate the  performance of  Hyperscale and HPC workloads. 

“Our ARMv8 ThunderX processors deliver best-in-class performance for high-intensity workloads such as HPC, big data, and large-scale web applications. With up to 48 high-performance cores and integrated accelerators, we help drive faster results and reduced TCO,” said Steve Cumings, Director, Market Development, Cavium.  “SanDisk is a leader in flash technology and we look forward to working with them to deliver best-in-class solutions.”

SanDisk delivers innovative datacenter storage solutions ranging from Solid State Drives (SSDs) to PCIe application accelerators and storage systems.  These solutions accelerate performance of servers and storage arrays supporting cloud, big data and database workloads, and market research data shows that flash technology is being rapidly adopted across all computing tiers.  Each solution enables faster processing – and faster time-to-results – as customers seek to address the gap between increasing processor speeds and slow-moving hard disk drive (HDD) storage.

“SanDisk delivers Flash-based storage solutions that accelerate workload performance for our customers and we see Cavium taking a similar CPU design approach for HPC and other demanding workloads,” said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Solutions, SanDisk.  “As datacenter workloads, compute and storage requirements continue to grow, so too will the demand for flash based storage acceleration. We intend to work with and enable innovators like Cavium to address these needs.”

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, and integrated hardware accelerators, this family of processors delivers best-in-class performance per dollar and performance per watt.  The ThunderX family includes multiple SKUs that are board-compatible, enabling servers optimized for compute, storage, network and security.

For more information about Cavium and ThunderX products, visit us at ISC15, booth #1105 and at http://www.cavium.com/ThunderX_ARM_Processors.html. For more information on SanDisk’s data center storage solutions visit http://www.sandisk.com/enterprise/ or the SanDisk IT Blog.

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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Cavium and Leading Partners Showcase ThunderX™ ARMv8-based Server Platforms for Next Generation Cloud Data Center at ARM TechCon 2015

San Jose, CA, Nov 11, 2016 – 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 the demonstration of ThunderX based workload optimized server platforms for next generation Cloud and Hyperscale Data Centers at ARM TechCon 2015 in the Santa Cara convention center in California.  The show Expo dates are Wednesday, November 11th and Thursday, November 12th.

ThunderX is Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8 server processor family for next generation Cloud and high performance computing - workloads. With up to 48 high-performance custom cores, single and dual socket capability, high memory bandwidth and capacity, and integrated hardware accelerators, ThunderX enables best-in-class ARMv8 performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes multiple SKUs that enable servers optimized for compute, storage, network and security workloads in the cloud, and is widely supported by industry-leading OS, hypervisor, software tool and application vendors. ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

Show Highlights and Demonstrations

Cavium executives will be available to discuss the broad range of ThunderX  based platforms, which are ideal for critical workloads such as cloud storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases such as MySQL & Cassandra, Web Serving with NGINX , HPC and virtualization of base station functions in a Cloud RAN environment . ThunderX customer reference platforms will be on display at Cavium’s booth #214 along with live demo of

• ARM based OVH cloud platform running on ThunderX.
• FreeBSD based ThunderX system running NGINX.
• Cloud RAN deployment using Octeon Fusion & ThunderX running on MontaVista CGX with Base Band Unit (BBU) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC).

Cavium ThunderX presentation sessions at ARM TechCon 2015 include:

• Wednesday, November 11th: Ed Maste, FreeBSD, will be presenting on Exploring the FreeBSD/ARM64 Port at the Developer’s Den.
• Thursday, November 12th: Gopal Hegde, VP/GM of Data Center Processor Group at Cavium, will be presenting at Ballroom B (11.30AM)  on ThunderX Workload Optimized Processors
• Numerous ThunderX partners including System Partners, High Performance I/O partners and ARM focused software partners will be exhibiting at ARM TechCon.

To schedule a meeting at ARM TechCon, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter ARM TechCon 2015 Meeting Request in the subject line.

About Cavium, Inc.

Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud, 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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