Cavium and Leading Partners to Showcase ThunderX®-based Server Platforms & Software for High Performance Computing at ISC 2017

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

Frankfurt, Germany and San Jose, California – June 19, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, datacenter, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will showcase ThunderX-based server platforms and software for high-performance computing (HPC) at ISC 2017. The conference will take place in Frankfurt Germany at the Messe Frankfurt (Hall 3 and Forum), June 18 ^th – 22^nd. Exhibition dates are June 19^th – 21^st.

First held in 1986, ISC High Performance is the world’s oldest and Europe’s most important conference and networking event for the HPC community. It offers a strong five-day technical program focusing on HPC technological development and its application in scientific fields, as well as its adoption in commercial environments.

Since the initial launch of ThunderX, Cavium has inspired HPC partners and end users to solve challenging compute-based problems with an innovative architecture that provides key advantages in areas such as integration, I/O, and memory bandwidth.  Offering diverse configurations, ThunderX system partners deploy solutions that specifically target leading HPC market segments.

Cavium’s ThunderX & ThunderX2™ 64–bit ARMv8-based family of processors feature high-performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, high memory capacity & bandwidth, integrated hardware accelerators for networking, storage, and security along with highest level of I/O throughput and scalability. They are fully compliant with ARMv8-A architecture specifications including ARM’s SBSA and SBBR standards, and widely supported by industry-leading OS, hypervisor and software tool and application vendors.  

Show Highlights and Demonstrations

The ISC High Performance exhibition will feature the largest collection of HPC vendors, universities, and research organizations that come together in Europe each year. Cavium executives and technical leaders will discuss a broad range of HPC solutions, including the company’s most recent announcements.  ThunderX-based platforms from various ODM and OEM partners will be on display at Cavium booth E-1000.  Specific demonstrations and activities include:

·         - ThunderX & ThunderX2: 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

o    Demonstrations of ThunderX & ThunderX2 processors deployed in single- and dual-socket platforms will be on display

·        -  Numerous Cavium ecosystem partners will be exhibiting at the ISC event, including Allinea, AMD, Bright Computing, Red Hat, and SUSE.

    - On Monday, June 19^th at 2:15 p.m., Gopal Hegde, Vice President/General Manager for Cavium’s Datacenter Processor Group, will present ThunderX2 at the ISC Vendor Showdown.

·        - On Tuesday, June 20^th at 1:00 p.m., Rishi Chugh, Director Product Marketing for Cavium’s Datacenter Processor Group, will present ThunderX2 Advantages for the HPC Market at the Exhibitor Forum.

·        - On Tuesday, June 20^th at 2:45 p.m., Larry Wikelius, Vice President for Cavium’s VP Software Ecosystem and Solutions Group, will host the Birds of a Feather (BOF) Session Designing, Porting & Optimizing HPC Workloads for ARM Based Systems.  This session will feature speakers from Oak Ridge National Lab, Sandia National Lab, The Hartree Center and HPE.

·        - On Thursday, June 22^nd at 12:05 p.m. Giri Chukkapalli, Distinguished Engineer, will present ThunderX2 and HPC Applications at the “Going ARM” workshop.

·        - For the second consecutive year, ThunderX systems will participate in the prestigious Student Cluster Competition during ISC on the ISC Exhibit Floor.

To schedule a meeting at ISC, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter ISC 2017 Meeting Request in the subject line.

About Cavium

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) 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, Datacenter 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 about the Company, please visit: http://www.cavium.com/.

Media Contact:

Angel Atondo
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Cavium, Inc.
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium Expands the ThunderX2 Server Ecosystem for Cloud and HPC Applications

Rapid Growth of System Vendors and Configuration Options Fueling Ecosystem Expansion 

Frankfurt, Germany and San Jose, California – June 19, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, datacenter, cloud, wired and wireless networking, continues to aggressively expand the ThunderX2 server ecosystem with a broad array of commercial and open source partners.  

Demonstrating success in working closely with software developers and communities since the initial launch of ThunderX^®, Cavium has established a significant ecosystem that spans Operating Systems, Development Environments, Tools, and Applications.  An increasing array of hosted options such as Packet.Net and the online Scaleway^® cloud service offerings, combined with a rich set of single and dual-socket ODM and OEM platforms that include and OCP configurations, allow developers to easily build, develop, and deploy their software on ThunderX based platforms.

The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second-generation 64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoCs for datacenter, cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The family integrates fully out-of-order, high-performance custom cores supporting single- and dual-socket configurations. ThunderX2 is optimized to drive high computational performance delivering outstanding memory bandwidth and memory capacity. The new line of ThunderX2 processors includes multiple workload optimized SKUs for both scale up and scale out applications and is fully compliant with ARMv8-A architecture specifications as well as the ARM Server Base System Architecture and ARM Server Base Boot Requirements standards.

With increasing HPC end user deployments, Cavium has directly delivered key open source software contributions that are particularly targeted for compute-specific applications, such as optimizations for GCC, LLVM, and OpenBLAS.  Cavium continues to actively contribute to the upstream kernel.org enablement for ThunderX2 that supports close collaboration with leading Linux OS partners: Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE.  OpenHPC is a growing community for software and best practices that Cavium has actively supported with reference systems for ARM based build, test, and validation activities.  Building on the open source software that OpenHPC is delivering, many of Cavium’s commercial partners are expanding their commercial support for ThunderX and ThunderX2.

   

“We have tested and supported Cavium technology since 2015, within the second phase of the Mont-Blanc project, and we recently announced a new Mont-Blanc system based on ThunderX2 developed by Bull atos technologies within the third phase of Mont-Blanc,” says Filippo Mantovani, Senior researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center and principal investigator of the Mont-Blanc project. “The collaboration with Cavium has aligned with needs of the HPC community. The development of the PAPI support for the ThunderX SoC has been a great example of this and I am sure we will continue working together for enhancing the ARM ecosystem,” concludes Mantovani.

"The HPC partner community that Cavium is driving on ThunderX2 is further recognition of the growing demand for alternative solutions to solve today’s most significant compute-based problems," said Larry Wikelius, Vice President of the Software Ecosystem and Solutions Group at Cavium, Inc. "With both commercial and open source alternatives ThunderX2 end users can quickly deploy and manage these platforms in the most optimal fashion with support for the critical development environments and applications they require."

Supporting Partner Quotes

Altair

“Altair is excited to be working with Cavium to deliver key Altair software products and solutions on the ThunderX2 family of processors.   With a proven track record in the HPC community, Altair’s expertise brings tremendous value to the ThunderX2 platform and will address key end user requirements for workload management and application support.   This collaboration has already delivered results with the initial availability of Thea Render, a high-performance CPU and NVIDIA GPU rendering solution, on ThunderX.  Using Thea Render technology, ThunderX is now able to provide complex photorealistic imagery for applications such as architectural visualization, product design and automotive engineering.  Additionally, PBS Pro supports ARM today, both as part of the pbspro.org open source project and as part the OpenHPC community stack.  Altair is partnering with Cavium to ensure the next major commercial release of PBS Pro will support the ThunderX2.”   Piush Patel - Vice President, Corporate Development for HPC & Cloud

 AMI  

“American Megatrends considers Cavium as a key partner in our push to expand our server design support capabilities, particularly for the rapidly growing hyperscale market segment. Beginning with the introduction of the original Thunder X platform, AMI and Cavium have a strong history of collaboration, delivering the most complete Firmware / Platform Management solution available for today’s scale-out data center and cloud markets,” said Subramonian Shankar, President, Founder and CEO of American Megatrends. “With our proven track record for Aptio® V UEFI Firmware and MegaRAC® SP-X Management Solutions we are confident that our system partners will benefit greatly from this partnership. In fact, we have already seen this partnership begin to bear fruit in a growing number of rewarding customer engagements. As such, we look forward to continuing to build on our partnership with Cavium and to offer integral support for their products.”

ARM

“The availability of Cavium ThunderX2 processors specifically designed for HPC is a major milestone toward the wide adoption of the ARM architecture in HPC and Cloud,” said Javier Orensanz, General Manager, Development Solutions Group, ARM. “ARM and Cavium have been working closely with many partners to develop and expand the rich ARM-ready ecosystem for HPC. As a result of our collaboration, ARM’s commercially supported compilers and libraries are delivering an increasing number of performance optimizations targeted to HPC applications running on ThunderX2.”

Bright Computing

“Since announcing our partnership in 2015, Bright Computing has worked closely with Cavium’s engineering team to bring Bright’s cluster management software to Cavium’s ThunderX platform.  With a number of mutual clients already expressing interest in leveraging the power of Bright to manage their ARM estate, we are excited by the introduction of Cavium’s ThunderX2 technology and expect this to accelerate the demand.  Bright Computing is proud to be included in Cavium’s ecosystem of partners, and we look forward to playing an important role in empowering Cavium customers to deploy and manage their Cavium-based platforms, quickly and easily.”  Lee Carter – VP WW Alliances Bright Computing

Canonical

“Today’s announcement extends the long-standing partnership between Canonical and Cavium as we continue to combine our core expertise to bring innovative cloud and HPC solutions to the ARMv8-A server market via ThunderX2 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS”, said Anand Krishnan, EVP of Cloud, Canonical.  "ThunderX2 with its HPC and cloud specific optimizations, together with Canonical’s bare metal provisioning (MAAS) and workload orchestration tools (Juju) deliver a solid platform for outstanding performance, deployments at scale and fully automated management.”

Linaro

"Cavium and its hardware platforms have been key to Linaro's open source collaborative engineering for more than five years," said George Grey, Linaro CEO. "In the last year, the work has accelerated rapidly, and Linaro now offers Cloud services to developers on member-based ARMv8 hardware located in the US, UK and China. This hardware includes Cavium's ThunderX, and is being used to work on open source projects including OpenStack, OpenHPC, enterprise optimizations and upstreaming of SVE implementations in GCC, LLVM and QEMU. The Linaro Developer Cloud and QEMU can now be used by ecosystem developers to bootstrap their applications for HPC and data center environments. We continue our strong partnership with Cavium, and we look forward to adding ThunderX2 support to the Linaro Developer Cloud in the near future."

Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)

“NAG have been working closely with Cavium and ARM for several years. Cavium’s release of ThunderX2 is a significant step forward in ARM based hardware for the HPC market. Cavium’s second generation ARM server processor, the ThunderX2 offers real opportunities for HPC users. We look forward to continued collaboration with Cavium’s technical team and supporting the end-users.”  John Holden, VP Global Markets - Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)

Red Hat

”From driving standards to delivering stable development platforms, our collaboration with Cavium in the ARM ecosystem has helped to solidify the basic underpinnings of ARM as a datacenter technology. As customer interest in ARM for next-generation use cases like cloud and high-performance computing begins to grow, Cavium’s contributions, along with those from Red Hat and many other community members, will help to codify how ARM-based systems can best run these modern workloads on emerging hardware and the role accelerators play in modern system designs.”  Jim Totton, Vice President and General Manager, Platforms Business Unit, Red Hat

Rogue Wave Software 

“Rogue Wave Software is pleased to partner with Cavium. Our TotalView for HPC product supports ThunderX2 platform users with high-scale debugging and detection of memory leaks on the platform,” says Martin Bakal, Principal Product Manager at Rogue Wave Software. “We’re also happy to announce our multi-language, Python and C/C++ support in TotalView version 2017.1 to make it even easier for users to debug and analyze the execution of their complex applications.”

SUSE

“Cavium is a key partner for SUSE as we jointly bring the advantages of Linux for 64-bit ARM processors to enterprise environments,” said Gerald Pfeifer, Vice President of Products and Technology Programs at SUSE. “Building a server ecosystem from the bottom up is an enormous job. With Cavium's support, we were able to deliver the first commercial Linux distribution for ARM with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and to enable OpenHPC for the ARM platform.”

About Cavium

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), 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, Datacenter 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 about the Company, please visit: http://www.cavium.com/.

Media Contact:

Angel Atondo
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Cavium, Inc.
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium, Inc. Announces Extension of the Expiration of the Exchange Offer in Connection with the Proposed Acquisition of QLogic Corporation

San Jose, Calif., August 10, 2016 – Cavium, Inc. (Nasdaq: CAVM) (“Cavium”), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced that the previously announced offer to exchange all of the outstanding shares of common stock of QLogic Corporation (“QLogic”) for $11.00 in cash and 0.098 shares of Cavium common stock for each share of QLogic common stock (the “Offer”) has been extended pursuant to the marketing period provided by the merger agreement entered into on June 15, 2016 among Cavium, Quasar Acquisition Corp., the offeror and a wholly owned subsidiary of Cavium, and QLogic (the “Merger Agreement”) in connection with Cavium’s debt financing for the transaction.

The Offer will now expire at 5:30 p.m., New York City time, on August 15, 2016, unless further extended in accordance with the Merger Agreement. All other terms and conditions of the Offer remain unchanged. Cavium expects the transaction to close on or about August 16, 2016, subject to the tender and non-withdrawal of a majority of the outstanding shares of QLogic common stock.  The closing of the Offer remains subject to other customary closing conditions.

The depositary for the Offer has advised Parent that, as of 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of August 9, 2016, approximately 59,315,736 shares have been validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Offer, representing approximately 70.7% of the outstanding QLogic shares.

The terms and conditions of the Offer are described in the exchange offer documents, which have been mailed to QLogic stockholders and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").

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. (Know more)

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Cavium, Inc. Announces Expiration of HSR Waiting Period for Proposed Acquisition of QLogic Corporation

San Jose, Calif., August 2, 2016 – Cavium, Inc. (Nasdaq: CAVM) ("Cavium"), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the "HSR Act") in connection with its proposed acquisition of QLogic Corporation (“QLogic”) occurred at 11:59 p.m. EST on July 29, 2016.

As previously announced, Cavium has entered into a merger agreement under which Cavium will acquire QLogic for $11.00 in cash and 0.098 shares of Cavium common stock for each share of QLogic common stock, through an exchange offer (the “Offer”) followed by a merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of Cavium with and into QLogic.  The expiration of the HSR Act waiting period satisfies one of the conditions required to consummate the Offer.  The closing of the Offer remains subject to other customary conditions, including the tender of a majority of the outstanding shares of QLogic common stock.

The Offer is scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of August 9, 2016, unless earlier extended or terminated.  The terms and conditions of the Offer are described in the exchange offer documents, which have been mailed to QLogic stockholders and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").

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.

Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain statements made herein, including, for example, information regarding the proposed transaction between Cavium and QLogic, the expected timetable for completing the transaction, and the potential benefits of the transaction, are "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements reflect the current analysis of existing information and are subject to various risks and uncertainties. As a result, caution must be exercised in relying on forward-looking statements. Due to known and unknown risks, our actual results may differ materially from our expectations or projections.

The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement; the outcome of any legal proceedings that could be instituted against QLogic or its directors or Cavium related to the merger agreement; the possibility that various conditions to the consummation of the Cavium exchange offer and merger may not be satisfied or waived, including the receipt of all regulatory clearances related to the merger; the failure of Cavium to obtain the necessary financing pursuant to the arrangements set forth in the debt commitment letter delivered pursuant to the merger agreement or otherwise; uncertainty as to how many shares of QLogic common stock will be tendered into the Cavium exchange offer; the risk that the Cavium exchange offer and merger will not close within the anticipated time periods; risks related to the ultimate outcome and results of integrating the operations of Cavium and QLogic, the ultimate outcome of Cavium's operating strategy applied to QLogic and the ultimate ability to realize synergies; the effects of the business combination on Cavium and QLogic, including the increased level of indebtedness resulting from the transaction, and the combined company's future financial condition, operating results, strategy and plans; risks that the proposed transaction disrupts current plans and operations, and potential difficulties in employee retention as a result of the merger; the risk of downturns in the semiconductor and networking industries; the effects of local and national economic, credit and capital market conditions on the economy in general; and other risks and uncertainties described herein, as well as those risks and uncertainties discussed from time to time in our other reports and other public filings with the SEC, including, but not limited to, those detailed in QLogic's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended April 3, 2016, and Cavium's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 and Cavium's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained herein are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Additional Information and Where to Find It
This document relates to a pending business combination transaction between Cavium and QLogic. This document does not constitute an offer to sell or exchange, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange, any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, sale or exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Cavium has filed a registration statement on Form S-4 related to the transaction with the SEC, as amended, and may file amendments thereto. Cavium and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cavium have filed a tender offer statement on Schedule TO (including a prospectus/offer to exchange, a related letter of transmittal and other exchange offer documents) related to the transaction with the SEC, as amended, and may file amendments thereto. QLogic has filed a solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 with the SEC, as amended, and may file amendments thereto. QLogic and Cavium may also file other documents with the SEC regarding the transaction. This document is not a substitute for any registration statement, Schedule TO, Schedule 14D-9 or any other document which QLogic or Cavium may file with the SEC in connection with the transaction. Investors and security holders are urged to read the registration statement, the Schedule TO (including the prospectus/offer to exchange, related letter of transmittal and other exchange offer documents), the solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 and the other relevant materials with respect to the transaction carefully and in their entirety, and to review any additional materials when they become available before making any investment decision with respect to the transaction, because they contain important information about the transaction.

The prospectus/offer to exchange, the related letter of transmittal and certain other exchange offer documents, as well as the solicitation/recommendation statement, will be made available to all holders of QLogic's stock at no expense to them. The exchange offer materials and the solicitation/recommendation statement are available for free at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Additional copies of the exchange offer materials and the solicitation/recommendation statement may be obtained for free by contacting Cavium's Investor Relations department at (408) 943-7417 or at angel.atondo@cavium.com. Additional copies of the solicitation/recommendation statement may be obtained for free by contacting QLogic's Investor Relations department at (949) 542-1330 or at doug.naylor@qlogic.com.

In addition to the prospectus/offer to exchange, the related letter of transmittal and certain other exchange offer documents, as well as the solicitation/recommendation statement, Cavium and QLogic file annual, quarterly and current reports and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy any reports or other information filed by Cavium and QLogic at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.

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Cavium Announces ThunderX2™

Significantly expands market opportunity for 64-bit ARM® based servers by addressing the most demanding application and workload requirements

TAIPEI, Taiwan., May 30, 2016 – 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 ThunderX2™, the second generation of workload optimized ARM server SoCs. 

ThunderX2 targets high performance volume servers deployed by Public/Private Cloud and Telco data centers and high performance computing applications. It is optimized for key Data Center workloads such as compute, security, storage, data analytics, network function virtualization (NFV) and distributed databases. ThunderX2 will deliver two to three times the performance across a wide range of standard benchmarks and applications compared to ThunderX®.  It also significantly expands the market reach of the ThunderX family of processors by targeting applications that require high single thread performance such as web search, graph analytics, a variety of enterprise applications such as massively parallel processing (MPP) databases, data warehousing and enterprise HPC applications such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and reservoir modelling. ThunderX2 will deliver comparable performance at a better TCO compared to the next generation of traditional server processors.

ThunderX2 is the second generation workload optimized ARMv8 processor built in 14nm FinFET process. It is fully compliant with ARMv8.2 architecture as well as ARM's Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) standard.

Key ThunderX2 features will include:

• 2nd generation of full custom Cavium ARM core.
• Multi-Issue, Fully OOO.
• 2.4 to 2.8GHz in normal mode, Up to 3 GHz in Turbo mode.
• > 2X single thread performance compared to ThunderX.
• Up to 54 cores per socket delivering 2-3X socket level performance compared to ThunderX.
• Cache.
• 40K I-Cache and 64K D-cache, highly associative.
• 32MB shared Last Level Cache (LLC).
• Single and dual socket configuration support using 2nd generation of Cavium Coherent Interconnect with > 2.5X coherent bandwidth compared to ThunderX.
• System Memory.
• 6 DDR4 memory controllers per socket.
• Dual DIMM per memory controller, for a total of 12 DIMMs per socket.
• Up to 3200MHz in 1 DPC and 2966MHz in 2 DPC configuration.
• Up to 3 TB of memory in dual socket configuration.
• Full system virtualization for low latency from virtual machine to IO enabled through Cavium virtSOC™ technology.
• Next Generation IO.
• Integrated 10/25/40/50/100GbE network connectivity.
• Multiple integrated SATAv3 interfaces.
• Integrated PCIe Gen3 interfaces, x1, x4, x8 and x16 support.
• Integrated Hardware Accelerators.
• OCTEON® style packet parsing, shaping, lookup, QoS and forwarding.
• Virtual Switch (vSwitch) offload.
• Virtualization, storage and NITROX® V security.

"The Cavium ThunderX2 will expand the market opportunity for ARM-based server technologies by addressing demanding application and workload requirements for compute, storage networking and security," said Simon Segars, CEO, ARM. "ThunderX2 demonstrates Cavium's ability to deliver a combination of innovation and engineering execution and the new product family increases the momentum for server deployments powered by ARM processors in large scale data centers and end user environments."

ThunderX2 family of processors include, FOUR workload optimized processors targeting different workloads.

• ThunderX2_CP™:  Optimized for cloud compute workloads such as private and public clouds, web serving, web caching, web search, commercial HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and reservoir modeling. This family supports multiple 10/25/40/50/100 GbE network Interfaces and PCIe Gen3 interfaces. It also includes accelerators for virtualization and vSwitch offload.
• ThunderX2_ST™: Optimized for big data, cloud storage, massively parallel processing (MPP) databases and Data warehousing workloads. This family supports multiple 10/25/40/50/100 GbE network interfaces, PCIe Gen3 interfaces and SATAv3 interfaces. It also includes hardware accelerators for data protection/ integrity/security, user to user efficient data movement.
• ThunderX2_SC™:  Optimized for secure web front-end, security appliances and cloud RAN type workloads. This family supports multiple 10/25/40/50/100 GbE interfaces and PCIe Gen3 interfaces. Integrated hardware accelerators include Cavium’s industry leading, 5th generation NITROX security technology with acceleration for IPSec, RSA and SSL.
• ThunderX2_NT™: Optimized for media servers, scale-out embedded applications and NFV type workloads. This family supports multiple 10/25/40/50/100 GbE interfaces. It also includes OCTEON style hardware accelerators for packet parsing, shaping, lookup, QoS and forwarding.

"ThunderX2 combines our next generation core that will deliver significantly higher single thread performance with next generation IO and hardware accelerators to provide a compelling value proposition for the server market and greatly expand the serviceable server TAM," said Syed Ali, President and CEO of Cavium. "ThunderX2 will enable flexible, scalable and fully optimizable servers for next generation software defined data centers."

Cavium's ThunderX2 SoC family is supported by a comprehensive software ecosystem ranging from platform level systems management and firmware to commercial Operating Systems, Development Environments and Applications. Cavium has actively engaged in server industry standards groups such as UEFI and delivered numerous reference platforms to a broad array of community and corporate partners. Cavium has also demonstrated its leadership role in the Open Source software community driving upstream kernel enablement for ThunderX, actively contributing to Linaro's Enterprise and Networking Groups, investing in key Linux Foundation projects such as Xen and OPNFV and sponsoring the FreeBSD Foundation's ARMv8 server implementation.

Supporting Comments from Cavium ThunderX Partners

AMI:
"Since 2014, AMI has been an active partner with Cavium, with the two companies collaborating to deliver the most complete firmware and platform management solution in the scale-out data center and cloud industry. AMI's scalable Aptio® UEFI Firmware and MegaRAC® SP-X management solutions enable ThunderX partners to quickly deliver complete system solutions to the market. AMI is currently shipping production versions of Aptio UEFI firmware and MegaRAC management solutions customized for ThunderX to customers in US and Asia. We see Cavium as a key partner with AMI in expanding our server design capability to include the rapidly growing hyperscale market, as AMI has been greatly impressed with the tremendous feature set and truly differentiating technology that Cavium offers with ThunderX. We expect that the latest generation of ARMv8 server announced today – ThunderX2 – will continue to improve on that legacy of distinction, and we have great optimism for the expanded opportunities that this next-generation ARM server platform will bring to our collective product offering and innovations," commented Subramonian Shankar, President and CEO of American Megatrends, Inc.

Canonical:
"Canonical and Cavium have partnered since the beginning of the ThunderX program and we have successfully delivered the recent production release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on ThunderX," said Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical. "With the launch of ThunderX2 Cavium is yet again demonstrating leadership in the ARMv8 server market and Canonical is excited to collaborate on further extending and optimizing Ubuntu and key Canonical features such as MAAS, Juju and Snappy to further accelerate end user deployment and integration. We congratulate Cavium on this major milestone and look forward to continuing to expand our partnership."

E4:
"It is a honor to be able to rely on such a close business relationship with a partner like Cavium, we designed and delivered our own solutions based on Cavium ThunderX SoC for a while now, with extreme satisfaction in terms of performances, support and overall results. We can't wait to get our hands the next gen SoC as we are confident it will provide an additional boost to an already strong and tested product line." Cosimo Gianfreda, CTO E4 Computer Engineering.

FreeBSD:
"The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to be part of the collaborative effort, working closely with ARM and Cavium, as an integral player in bringing ARMv8 to FreeBSD, and is excited to explore the options provided by Cavium's new processor family. Cavium continues to play a key leadership role in developing the ecosystem for ARM based servers and ThunderX2 will be another driving force for expansion in the Open Source Community. We are focused on supporting strategic technologies and working closely with the community and commercial vendors, to facilitate and monitor development work like this, to continue making FreeBSD a compelling platform for education, research, and product development." Deb Goodkin, Executive Director, The FreeBSD Foundation.

Gigabyte:
"Gigabyte has developed and is already shipping a range of Cavium ThunderX based server products to customers in US, Europe and Asia," said, Alex Liu, Head of Product Marketing, GIGABYTE. "Our comprehensive portfolio of ThunderX-based systems is available for order and a number of customers have received production units. We are seeing strong demand for these ARM-based platforms – especially from cloud service providers. The ThunderX2 represents a leap ahead in terms of overall performance and connectivity, which allows it to address demanding next generation data center workloads such as real time analytics and deep learning. Gigabyte will continue to partner with Cavium on ThunderX2 platforms."

Inventec:
"ThunderX2 from Cavium promises to be the breakthrough ARM-based processor that the data center market is looking for in terms of general compute intensive scale-out workloads," said Banks Chen, Head of product center division of Inventec.

Linaro:
"The ThunderX platform and Cavium's support have been key components of the collaborative software engineering in the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG), enabling continuous integration and testing of our work upstream in projects like UEFI and ACPI," said Linaro CEO George Grey. "We are looking forward to integrating ThunderX2 systems into our workflow to accelerate development and further optimize the enterprise software stacks on ARMv8."

NGINX:
“We are excited to see the continued growth of Cavium’s ARM based server product line with today’s announcement of ThunderX2,” said Paul Oh, Head of Business Development, NGINX, Inc. “With the proliferation of new applications and digital services, NGINX Plus provides a complete software-based application delivery platform with full support for new technologies, such as efficient and powerful ARMv8 based servers. We look forward to further partnering with Cavium to drive the migration to cloud-based content and application delivery."

Red Hat:
"As an inaugural member of the Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program, Cavium has been a strong partner in driving technical innovation and standardization within the ARM ecosystem in the core areas such as UEFI and ACPI to the ARM SBSA standard" said Tim Burke, vice president, Linux Engineering, Red Hat. "With this latest version of ThunderX family of processors Cavium brings support for scalable server designs into the upstream Linux kernel. We look forward to continuing our collaboration and enablement efforts with Cavium as they deliver innovative designs based on ARM V8-A architecture."

SUSE:
"Since SUSE announced its partner program to bring SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 to ARM V8 processors, Cavium has worked closely with us to not only deliver SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 to ThunderX customers, but we have also collaborated with Cavium to bring SUSE Enterprise Storage to our joint customers," said Jay Kruemcke, SUSE product manager. "The initial launch of ThunderX by Cavium raised the standard for ARM servers with key capabilities such as dual socket support, 96 core scalability and integrated server class IO. Cavium has demonstrated great leadership in the ARM server market, and the next-generation ThunderX2 SOC continues that tradition."

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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 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.

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

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Cavium Unveils OCTEON TX™: Industry’s widest range of 64-bit ARM®-based SOCs for a broad spectrum of open, services-centric applications in enterprise and service provider infrastructure

SOCs with 1 to 24 enhanced ARMv8.1 cores, rich ecosystem for control plane applications and hardware acceleration for data plane

San Jose, Calif. , May 2, 2016 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today unveiled OCTEON TX, a complete line of 64-bit ARM based SOCs for control plane and data plane applications in networking, security, and storage. This new product line is composed of 4 product families - CN80XX, CN81XX, CN82XX and CN83XX with 1 to 24 full custom, enhanced 64-bit ARM v8.1 cores, providing the industry’s broadest range of highly integrated 64-bit ARM SOC products for a wide variety of embedded processing applications. The OCTEON TX expands the addressability of Cavium’s embedded products into control plane application areas within enterprise, service provider, data center networking and storage that need support of extensive software ecosystem and virtualization features. This product line is also optimized to run multiple concurrent data and control planes simultaneously for security and router appliances, NFV and SDN infrastructure, service provider CPE, wireless transport, NAS, storage controllers, IOT gateways, printer and industrial applications.

Market DynamicsThe networks of the future are striving to become more open and application centric to enable service expansion and increase monetization. In this open network, the control plane needs to run commercial software distributions and operating systems (e.g., RHEL, Canonical and Java SE), support open source applications (e.g., OpenStack, OpenFlow and Quagga), launch services dynamically and run customer specific services. The data plane is also challenged to support concurrent coexistence of multiple types of high performance data plane applications for firewall, content delivery, routing, and traffic management. The bandwidth demanded for these data planes in networks is also exploding driven by multimedia 4K content and applications, exabytes of storage mirrored across Cloud and Enterprise, real time data acquisition, and rapid growth of connected devices in the IOT world. The threats inside these open networks of cloud and enterprise are becoming increasingly sophisticated and vulnerabilities are becoming more exposed with the connectivity of millions of unsecured IOT devices.

The OCTEON SOC architecture already has established market leadership in data plane application performance and efficiency. While current OCTEON SOCs are used in applications for data plane as well as control plane with embedded software, control plane applications requiring wider software ecosystem and support traditionally have been addressed by the x86 architecture. The open, service centric networks need lower-cost alternatives for control plane, and superior ecosystem and networking performance for data plane. The ARM architecture is able to service these critical needs.

The OCTEON TX ARM 64-bit SOC family of processors combine the best in class data plane performance of the OCTEON® SOC family, and the rich software ecosystem and virtualization features, extended support of open source applications and highly optimized custom ARMv8.1 CPU cores of the ThunderX® family. It also integrates Cavium’s flagship security architecture from the NITROX® V security processor family. With this unique combination of performance, features and interfaces, the OCTEON TX provides an excellent solution for service centric networks and addresses additional application areas in the embedded processor market. The OCTEON TX offers a software compatible, scalable product family to meet the wide range of price, power and performance requirements of various end markets such as virtual CPE, wireless transport, NAS, storage appliances and controllers, IOT gateways, industrial control, SMB routers, security appliances, data center accelerators, data center appliances and various control plane applications.

Feature Highlights

• Enhanced ThunderX (TX) ARM64 bit cores based on the latest ARM v8.1 ISA, with up to 2.2 GHz core frequency and 78K of I-Cache and 32K of D-Cache
• CN80XX, CN81XX: From 1 to 4 cores, up to 2MB of Last Level Cache, 1x32b/64b DDR4 with ECC.
• CN82XX, CN83XX: From 8 to 24 cores, up to 8MB of Last Level Cache, up to 2x64b DDR4 with ECC
• Simultaneous support of bulk and RSA crypto, from 400Mbps to 40Gbps of IPSEC performance and 600 to 20K RSA Ops/sec for 2048 bit keys.
• Latest security features – Supports a wide variety of protocols including IPsec, SSL, TLS 1.x, DTLS and ECC Suite B. Also supports a wide variety of algorithms including several variants of AES, 3DES, SHA-2, SHA-3, RSA 2048, RSA 4096, RSA 8192, ECC p256/p384/p521, Kasumi, ZUC and SNOW 3G.
• From 500Mbps to 50Gbps of Layer 3 forwarding
• Up to 2x 32/64-bit DDR3/DDR4 controllers with ECC, with up to 2400MTS
• Integrated Compression Engines with up to 40Gbps
• High bandwidth IO: Integrates up to - 12 10Gb/1GbE, 3 40GbE, 4 PCI-Express Gen3, 6 SATA 3.0
• Latest ARMv8.1 and SMMU v2 for data center class full-SOC virtualization support
• Low Power to meet the strict thermal profiles of fanless designs, off-load cards and outdoor industrial grade form factors

Supporting Industry Quotes
“Cavium’s OCTEON product line has achieved broad success across a wide range of multicore networking applications due to its highly scalable and accelerated SOC architecture.  With OCTEON TX, Cavium is combining its data plane architecture with its optimized ARMv8.1 cores to target a new range of open and virtualized applications for services-centric networks”, said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at the Linley Group.

“Cavium has delivered breakthrough performance for data plane and security applications with its multi-core OCTEON SOCs,” said Steve Klinger, General Manager, Infrastructure Processor Group at Cavium.   “The wide range of products in the OCTEON TX ARM 64-bit product line builds upon this success and expands the use of these products into control and embedded processing applications that leverage the fast growing ARM ecosystem and breadth of open source initiatives”.

Availability
The 1 to 4 core CN80XX and CN81XX product families will be sampling in Q2 of 2016, and the 8 to 24 core CN82XX and CN83XX will be sampling in Q3 of 2016.

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

Cavium Contact:
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager,
Cavium, 2315 N. First Street,
San Jose CA 95131,
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium Showcases Innovative NFV/SDN Technology Solutions at NFV World Congress 2016

SAN JOSE, CA, April 19, 2016 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for cloud, data center, telco infrastructure, enterprise, wired and wireless networking, is demonstrating the company’s innovative solutions for NFV, SDN, Security, 5G Networks, and Telco Cloud at this week’s NFV World Congress 2016. The show expo dates are from April 20th – 22nd at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in San Jose, California.

NFV World Congress and its sister SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Europe are the principal global industry forums for NFV+SDN. Every six months, the industry meets face-to-face to examine and debate progress, learn and exchange knowledge, and to showcase how the combination of NFV, SDN, MANO and Open Source will provide the next generation of telecom networking.

Cavium remains at the forefront of NFV and SDN technology with advanced and highly-scalable solutions in ThunderX® workload optimized standard ARM servers, XPliant® programmable SDN fabric, OCTEON Fusion-M™, LiquidSecurity™ and LiquidIO® intelligent NICs to address the complex needs of the industry. These solutions leverage Cavium’s fully-virtualized integrated multicore processors and baseband SoC’s, SDN switching, and intelligent adapters supported by a wide range of open source communities, standard operating systems, virtualization software, and software applications.

Cavium will showcase the following NFV/SDN technology solutions in the Bayshore ballroom at booth 8:

• Cloud / Centralized RAN with SDN - Fully Programmable, dis-aggregated, low latency SDN–based RAN solution for LTE and 5G.
• OPNFV Compliant NFV Platform - ThunderX 48–core, 64–bit ARM processor families for COTS servers and embedded applications. Supported by rich eco–systems of OS distros, OEM/ODM servers including OCP and telco OCP servers, dataplane acceleration and Ceph storage.
• Telco Cloud and NFV acceleration - LiquidIO intelligent server NIC cards offloading IPsec, OVS, Service Function Chaining, DPI, and NVMe–over–fabric.
• Security as a Service for Telco Cloud - LiquidSecurity appliance for key management in the cloud.
• Fully Programmable Top-of-Rack and Spine SDN Switch - Extensible, feature rich, cloud scale datacenter XPliant switches providing bandwidth from 1Tbps to 3.2Tbps.

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

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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.

Cavium Contact:
Angel Atondo 
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager,
Cavium, 2315 N. First Street,
San Jose CA 95131, 
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417

Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Two Gigabyte Cavium ThunderX ARM Servers Shown Off

Something that skipped almost everyone’s eye at CES recently was that Gigabyte had brought along two models of its Cavium ThunderX ARM Servers.

While there are four of the Cavium Thunder 88xx at their OEM arm, the two they have shown off now are 1U R150-T60 and 2U R270-T60. The image below shows off 1U R150-T60.

That being said, both these servers come with 3.5″ HDD and 10 x 2.5″ HDD configurations variants.

Other features include an Inphi Cortina CS4343 controller with 40GbE. Talking of the 2U R270-T60, it has 2x40GbE for each node which is the same as their other model 1U 1S R120-T30 – this was not shown at CES and so was not 2U H270-T70.

Moving on, the 2U H270-T70 and the 1U R150-T6 have 3x40GbE for each server and 4x10GbE. Also, all these models come with a link to management controller Aspeed AST2400.

There are eight quad-channel configuration DDR4 DIMM for each socket supporting up to DDR4/2400. In 2U configuration you can pack 384 cores and 8x40GbE ports.

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