Cavium Joins the OpenMP Effort

31 vendors and research organizations now collaborating on developing standard parallel programming model

Austin, Texas — September 12, 2017 – The OpenMP ARB, a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research organizations that create the OpenMP standard parallel programming specification, today announced that Cavium, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, service provider wired and wireless networking has joined as a new member.

“Cavium’s membership in the OpenMP ARB further highlights our strong belief in industry’s demand for parallel computing and the significance of the ARM Architecture,” said Avinash Sodani, Distinguished Engineer at Cavium. “Cavium’s strong product portfolio includes ThunderX2, a compelling server-class, multi-core ARMv8 CPU suited for the most demanding compute workloads. We look forward to working with other OpenMP members in furthering OpenMP standards to meet the challenges of the Exascale era.”

“We are pleased that Cavium, Inc. has joined the OpenMP ARB and will help strengthen OpenMP support in the ARM software ecosystem,” says Michael Klemm, CEO of the OpenMP ARB.


About OpenMP
The OpenMP ARB has a mission to standardize directive-based multi-language high-level parallelism that is performant, productive and portable. Jointly defined by a group of major computer hardware and software vendors, the OpenMP API is a portable, scalable model that gives parallel programmers a simple and flexible interface for developing parallel applications for platforms ranging from embedded systems and accelerator devices to multicore systems and shared-memory systems. The OpenMP ARB owns the OpenMP brand, oversees the OpenMP specification and produces and approves new versions of the specification. Further information can be found at http://www.openmp.org/.

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit http://www.cavium.com.

Contacts

OpenMP Architecture Review Board
Matthijs van Waveren
Marketing Coordinator
Email: info@openmp.org

Cavium Media Contact
Angel Atondo, Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Phone: +1-408-943-7417
E-mail: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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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.

Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium Announces Financial Results for Q4 2015

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27, 2016 -- Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter endedDecember 31, 2015.

Net revenue in the fourth quarter of 2015 was $100.9 million, a 3.9% sequential decrease from the $105.1 million reported in the third quarter of 2015 and relatively flat from the $101.2 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Results

Net loss in the fourth quarter of 2015 was $1.0 million, or $(0.02) per diluted share, compared to net income of $4.2 million, or $0.07 per diluted share in the third quarter of 2015. Gross margins were 66.2% in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to 65.5% in the third quarter of 2015. Total cash and cash equivalents were $134.6 million at December 31, 2015.

Non-GAAP Results

Cavium believes that the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures provides important supplemental information to management and investors regarding financial and business trends relating to Cavium's financial condition and results of operations. These measures should only be used to evaluate Cavium's results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures. The reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP financial results is provided in the financial statements portion of this release.

In the fourth quarter of 2015, Non-GAAP net income was $16.6 million, or $0.28 per diluted share. Non-GAAP gross margin was 66.6% and Non-GAAP operating margin (non-GAAP income from operations as a percentage of revenue) was 17.1%.

Recent News Highlights

·         November 16, 2015 - Cavium and Leading Partners Showcased ThunderX™ ARMv8-based Server Platforms for Next Generation Cloud Data Center at ARM TechCon 2015

·         November 16, 2015 - Cavium's ThunderX Workload Optimized Processors received Readers' and Editors' Choice Award for Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch from HPCwire

·         November 16, 2015 - E4 Computer Engineering announced production availability and customer shipment of ARKA Server Platforms with Cavium ThunderX™ ARMv8 Workload-Optimized Processors

·         November 16, 2015 - Cavium Announced Collaboration with Bright Computing to Support the ThunderX™ Processor Family

·         November 16, 2015 - Penguin Computing Announced Availability and Customer Shipments of Tundra Extreme Scale Valkre Servers Based on Cavium ThunderX™ Workload Optimized Processors

·         November 16, 2015 - Wistron Announced New Server Platforms based on Cavium's ThunderX™ Workload-Optimized Processor Family

·         November 16, 2015 - Inventec Enables Hadoop, Cloud Computing and Hyperscale Workloads with new K850G3 Server Platforms with Cavium ThunderX™ Workload Optimized Processors

·         November 16, 2015 - GIGABYTE Announced Availability and Production Shipments of Extensive Cavium ThunderX-based Server Portfolio

·         November 9, 2015 - Cavium and Pica8 Partners to Deliver Leading Edge Open Networking Solutions

Cavium, Inc. will broadcast its fourth quarter of 2015 financial results conference call today, January 27, 2016, at 2 p.m. Pacific time (5 p.m. Eastern time).  The conference call will be available via a live web cast on the investor relations section of the Cavium website at http://www.cavium.com. Please access the website at least a few minutes prior to the start of the call in order to download and install any necessary audio software. An archived web cast replay of the call will be available on the web site for a limited period of time.

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 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 and Leading Partners Showcase ThunderX™ ARM-based Server Platforms for High Performance Computing at Super Computing 2015 (SC15)

Austin, TX – November 16, 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 the demonstration of ThunderX based workload optimized server platforms for High Performance Computing, Compute Intensive Data Analytics, Scale Out Storage and Hyperscale Data Centers at SC15 in the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX.  The show Expo dates are from Monday, November 16th to Thursday, November 19th.

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 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 highly parallel HPC applications, scale out storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases such as MySQL & Cassandra, and Web Serving with NGINX. ThunderX based ODM platforms will be on display at Cavium’s booth #481 including:

• SUSE Enterprise Storage on Stack Velocity 1U Dense Storage Server
• E4 Computing 1S / 2U server with integrated NVIDIA Tesla GPU
• Gigabyte 1S / 1U,  2S / 1U, and 2S / 2U four-node server platforms
• Inventec 2S server platform
• Penguin Computing 2S OpenCompute server

Cavium ThunderX presentation sessions at SC15 include:

• Monday, November 16th, Larry Wikelius, Director of Ecosystems and Partner Enablement will be presenting on Cavium HPC Ecosystem Momentum at the ARM HPC User Group Session, hosted at the Radisson Hotel. Christopher Bergstrom from PathScale will also be presenting.
• Tuesday, November 17th, Larry Wikelius will be presenting in the SUSE Booth, and Steve Cumings, Director of Market Development will be presenting in the Mellanox booth
• Wednesday, November 18th, Steve Cumings will be presenting in the SUSE Booth

To schedule a meeting at SC15, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter SC15 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 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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Cavium to Demonstrate Cloud Workload Instances at OVH Summit 2015

• Providing value-add functionality for application acceleration, network configuration and provisioning, security, and isolation in multi-tenant compute clusters.

• Accelerating network performance in cloud data centers for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) applications by offloading Open vSwitch with various server virtualization techniques.

• Providing security acceleration and support for overlay networks, IPsec encryption, DPI for application recognition and dynamic service chaining.

• Cloud configuration, provisioning and management utilizing OpenStack API services/ plugins and support SDN controllers including OpenDaylight and Floodlight. Cavium’s product demonstration will include LiquidIO IIoffloading (OVS and IPsec) with OpenStack Cloud OS network acceleration and provisioning.

• Fully integrated I/O including 10G and 40G Ethernet, PCIe Gen3 and SATAv3. ThunderX delivers full bandwidth and low latency across all of these interfaces.

• virtSOC™ technology delivers full system virtualization and SR-IOV capable IO. Hypervisor support for both KVM and Xen are fully enabled.

• Integrated security, networking and storage hardware accelerators. Easily enabled with standard kernel and library interfaces these hardware accelerators provide significant performance improvements for key cloud workloads such as secure compute, NFV, Cloud Storage and Big Data/Analytics.

• Support for industry standard server class software including UEFI and ACPI along with upstream support in the Linux Kernel, GCC Toolchain and OpenJDK Java.

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