Cavium and Leading Partners to Showcase ThunderX2™ Arm-based Server Platforms and FastLinQ® Ethernet Adapters for High Performance Computing at SC17

SAN JOSE, CA and DENVER, CO, November 13, 2017 – Cavium^™, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking, will showcase various ThunderX2™ Arm-based server platforms for high performance computing at this year’s Supercomputing (SC17) conference taking place in the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado from November 13th to 16th.

ThunderX2 server SoC 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 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.

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 and toolchain optimization, actively contributing to Linaro’s Enterprise and Networking Groups, investing in key Linux Foundation projects such as DPDK, OpenHPC, OPNFV and Xen and sponsoring the FreeBSD Foundation’s Armv8 server implementation.

SC17 Show Highlights and Product Demonstrations
Cavium’s executive leaders and technology experts will be available to discuss the company’s ThunderX2 processor technology, platforms, roadmap and HPC target solutions while demonstrating a range of platforms and configurations. Many of Cavium’s key partners will also be present with demonstrations that include system implementation, system software, tools and applications.  In addition to the ThunderX2 based ODM and OEM platforms and Cavium's FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters, the following product demonstrations will be on display on the show floor and at Cavium's booth #349.

• Cavium ThunderX2^™ – 64–bit Armv8 based SoC family that significantly increases performance, memory bandwidth and memory capacity. We will be demonstrating various applications running on ThunderX2 in both single and dual socket configurations.
  Cavium’s systems partners Bull/Atos (Booth #1925), Cray (Booth #625), Gigabyte (Booth #2151), HPE (Booth #925), and Penguin (Booth #1801) will be showcasing HPC platforms based on ThunderX2. Cavium’s software partners will be demonstrating a variety of software tools and applications optimized for ThunderX2. In addition, there will be a full rack of ThunderX2 based systems showcased in HPE’s Comanche collaboration booth #494.

• Cavium FastLinQ^®:– 10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet adapters that enable the highest level of application performance with the industry’s only Universal RDMA capability that supports RoCE v1, RoCE v2 and iWARP concurrently. With the explosion of data there is a critical need for fast and intelligent I/O throughout the data center. Cavium FastLinQ products enable machine learning, data analytics, NVMe over fabrics storage while maximizing system performance.

The following additional presentations by Cavium will cover ThunderX2 updates, Arm Ecosystem, and End User Optimizations focused on HPC.

• On Monday, November 13, 2017 at 3:30 pm, Surya Hotha, Director of Product Marketing for Cavium’s Datacenter Processor Group, will present ThunderX2 in HPC applications at the third annual Arm SC HPC User Forum.
• On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 10.30 am, Giri Chukkapalli, Distinguished Engineer, will present ThunderX2 technology overview at the Red Hat Theater.
• On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 2.30 pm, Varun Shah, Product Marketing Manager for Cavium’s Datacenter Processor Group, will present ThunderX2 advantages for the HPC Market at the Exhibitor Forum.
• On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 2.30 pm, Giri Chukkapalli, Distinguished Engineer, will present ThunderX2 technology overview at the HPE Theater.
• On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 2.30 pm, Cavium experts will present at the SUSE booth.

To schedule a meeting at SC17, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter SC17 Meeting Request in the subject line.

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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, 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.

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

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Inventec Launches New Baymax™ HyperScale Server Platforms Powered by Cavium ThunderX2™ Processors

Platforms compliant with Project Olympus Open Compute Platform Specifications

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, May 29, 2017 – Inventec, world's leading ODM server manufacturer for enterprise and cloud datacenter server and storage platforms, today announced, Baymax, a new server platform optimized for Cloud compute, high-performance cloud storage and Big Data applications based on Cavium, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: CAVM), second-generation 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX2 product family. Inventec is the largest ODM server manufacturer in the world and is a recognized leader in the delivery of high-performance and scalable server and storage designs to leading server OEMs as well as Mega Scale Datacenter end user customers.  The Baymax platform from Inventec is an OCP Project Olympus compliant 1U rack mount server platform supporting two ThunderX2 SoCs in a dual socket configuration with up to 1.5TB of DDR4 memory, three PCIe x16 slots, four SATA ports complimented by four M.2 flash for local storage. This platform is optimized for diverse workloads such as Hadoop, SQL, high performance cloud storage and Search workloads that require a balance of high computing performance with highest memory capacity and bandwidth. The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second generation 64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoCs for Datacenter, Cloud and High Performance Computing 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 ARM's SBSA and SBBR standards. It is also widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and SW tool and application vendors. “Inventec’s success as world’s largest server ODM has been based on our compelling designs and manufacturing expertise and our ability to deliver leading edge cost effective server platforms to world’s largest mega scale datacenters,” said Evan Chien, Senior Director of Inventec Server Business Unit 6. “Earlier this year Inventec’s customers requested platforms based on Cavium’s ThunderX2 ARMv8 processors, and the new Baymax platform is the first platform being delivered.” “Inventec is well known for their robust and innovative designs and broad customer base in both Hyperscale and Enterprise server markets and are expanding their ThunderX server portfolio offering with the addition of Baymax platforms,” said Gopal Hegde, VP/GM, Datacenter Processor Group, Cavium, “They are a great addition to the growing list of ThunderX2-based platform manufacturers.”   About Inventec Since its establishment, Inventec has adhered to a corporate philosophy of “Innovation, Quality, Open Mind, and Execution.” Starting from calculator and telephone, Inventec has moved forward into notebook industry and established a compelling reputation. In 21th century, Inventec has entered the fields of cloud computing, mobile computing, wireless communications, network applications, digital home appliances, software application and sustainable energy for the diversification. For more information, please visit: http://www.inventec.com 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, please visit: http://www.cavium.com Media Contact Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Telephone: +1 408-943-7417 Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Ingrasys Enables High Performance Computing and Hyperscale Workloads with New Class of Server Platforms Powered by Cavium ThunderX2™ Processors

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, May 29, 2017 – Ingrasys, fully owned subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, world’s largest manufacturer of server and storage platforms, today announced the sampling of new rack mount server platforms based on Cavium, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CAVM), second generation 64-bit ARMv8ThunderX2 product family. 

Ingrasys is a trusted name in contract manufacturing services and is a recognized leader in the delivery of high-performance and scalable server and storage designs to leading server Innovation Design and Manufacturing (IDM) as well as container datacenter end user customers. 

The Osmium platform from Ingrasys is a 2U4N rack mount density optimized server platform optimized for Cloud compute and high performance computing workloads. The platform supports four compute nodes in a 2U form factor delivering highest compute and memory density in a very compact form factor. Each compute node integrates two ThunderX2 SoCs in a cache coherent dual socket configuration with up to 1 TB of memory per node and 4 x16 PCIe slots enabling a variety of rich IO configurations. The four compute nodes share common chassis and power supply infrastructure enabling cost and density optimized server platforms that require a balance of high density compute with flexible OCP v2.0 Mezzanine card for network and storage connectivity options.

The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second generation 64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoCs for Datacenter, Cloud and High Performance Computing 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 ARM's SBSA and SBBR standards. It is also widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and SW tool and application vendors.

“Our customers continue to demand platform innovation that reduces TCO and increases workload performance,” said Taco Chang, Director of ARM platform product group at Ingrasys.  “The new platforms leverage ThunderX2’s compute, memory and rich IO capabilities to deliver highest levels of performance at compelling TCO allowing our customers to meet growing performance demands within their existing infrastructure.”

“Our design approach for the ThunderX product family continues to prove itself,” said Rishi Chugh, Director Product Marketing for Cavium’s Data Center Processor Group.  “Our partnership with Ingrasys is a great match, combining both companies’ focus on delivering high performance solutions for Cloud and high performance computing workloads with outstanding TCO.  Together, we are delivering the increases in performance and scalability necessary for businesses to handle increasingly data intensive workloads.”  

Availability
Ingrasys Osmium ThunderX2 servers are sampling to select customers.

About Ingrasys
Ingrasys Technology Inc., founded in February 2002, is a global leading developer in the cloud computing technologies. Headquartered in Taoyuan, Taiwan with approximately 1,000+ employees worldwide. Over 90% are engineers specialized in cloud computing technologies developments. Based upon its own innovative innovation in the fields of storage, server, data center, Ingrasys has maintained a steady growth on the business toward the global market. Ingrasys is dedicating to deliver the solid-state networking storage device/server, as well as the full spectrum of intelligent embedded network systems and service solutions for the fast-growing cloud computing environment. With extensive experiences in the cloud computing technologies, Ingrasys Technology Inc. is continuously aiming as the Best-In-Class technology company that connects all our partners to the future growth. For more information, please visit: http://www.ingrasys.com

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, please visit: http://www.cavium.com

Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Cavium, Inc.
Tel: (408) 943-7417
Email:angel.atondo@cavium.com 

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GIGABYTE Technology Announces Expansion of their ARM Server Portfolio based on Cavium's ThunderX2™ Workload Optimized Processor Family

Range of 1U and 2U High Density Server Platforms for Hyperscale Cloud and High Performance Computing Applications

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 29 2017 – GIGABYTE Technology, a leading producer of high performance server hardware, and 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 availability of high performance ARM server platforms based on Cavium's second generation 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX2 product family.

GIGABYTE, with its award-winning product portfolio, has been long recognized in the industry as a leader in design and innovation. With a broad offering of commercially-available ARM-based server solutions, GIGABYTE continues to demonstrate engineering expertise in system level integration that manages intensive compute I/O, large memory configurations and power optimization. Through its world-wide presence, GIGABYTE is uniquely positioned to accelerate the adoption and deployment of ThunderX2 based systems into the cloud and hyperscale data center applications.

GIGABYTE has announced multiple platforms optimized to utilize the ThunderX2 SoC. The R181 (1U) series utilizes a single socket ATX form factor motherboard with multiple PCIe x16 Gen3 and SATA connectors for expansion modules, along with high memory capacity. R181 is an ideal solution for applications that need cost effective high performance compute platforms.

GIGABYTE’s H216 series is a 2U server platform that can support 4 dual socket ThunderX2 compute nodes, with 1TB memory capacity per sled and multiple PCIe x16 slots. The chassis itself supports dual redundant power supplies and 24 2.5” HDDs. The H216 is designed to address the requirements of the most demanding applications in high performance computing and public/private cloud applications.

All platforms integrate IPMI-based management and are supported by GIGABYTE’s proprietary remote management application.

“GIGABYTE’s second generation line of ARMv8 server offerings, enabled by Cavium’s ThunderX2 processors, provides best-in-class high performance ARM solution for the Data Center, the Cloud and for Telcos,” said Etay Lee, General Manager of GIGABYTE Technology. “ThunderX2 SoCs deliver performance competitive with the latest high end server processors. GIGABYTE has developed highly integrated system solutions enabling an efficient and cost effective path to high density Hyperscale class data center design using the industry’s best ARMv8 server class processor. Our innovation, reliability and flexibility deliver time-to-market advantages to customers developing next generation data center & cloud solutions." 

“The Cavium ThunderX2 multi-core ARMv8 product family is well suited to address the high compute demands of next generation data center and cloud infrastructure,” said Rishi Chugh, Director Product Marketing for Cavium’s Data Center Processor Group. “By using Cavium’s ThunderX2 class processors, GIGABYTE is able to offer a wide variety of high-performance, high volume 1U and 2U systems in single and dual socket configurations as well as reference platforms that fully utilize core differentiators such as integrated SATA port integration, high memory bandwidth & capacity along with multiple PCIe Gen3 x16 ports. Together, we are delivering the performance, scalability and reliability necessary for businesses to handle increasingly complex data intensive workloads in a highly virtualized cloud based environments.”

The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second generation 64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoC for Datacenter, Cloud and High Performance Computing 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 ARM's SBSA and SBBR standards. It is also widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and SW tool and application vendors.

About GIGABYTE Technologies
GIGABYTE was founded in 1986, from there establishing our uncontested position in continuous technological innovation. By focusing on key technologies and achieving strict quality standards, GIGABYTE has been regarded as an innovative and trusted motherboard leader globally. To keep pace in a rapidly changing world, we offer a comprehensive product line covering Motherboards, Graphics Cards, PC Components, PC Peripherals, Laptops, Desktop PCs, Network Communications, Servers and Embedded Products. GIGABYTE Technology is dedicated to enabling a full-range digital life, responding promptly and effectively to market needs and desires.

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, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

GIGABYTE Contact:
Vincent Wang,
Director of Datacenter Sales Division,
GIGABYTE Technology
Telephone: +886 8912 4000 ext. 1269
Email: vincent.wang@gigabyte.com

Media 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 Named Winner of Omega Award for Trailblazing Innovation by ACG Research for 2016

Omega Award recognizes excellence in product innovation and Cavium's leadership in open network technologies and its initiatives in OCP, CORD and 5G Cloud RAN

SAN JOSE, CA – May 3, 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, received the Omega Trailblazing Innovation Award from ACG Research to recognize Cavium for addressing the issues of conventional networking platforms and opening up new opportunities for customers with its XPliant® packet switching technology, ThunderX® ARM SoCs, and the OCTEON® processor designs for HetNet RANs.

The Omega Award recognizes excellence in product innovation and differentiated marketing in HotSeat, Whiteboard and Spotlight Innovation videos.

ACG Research recognized Cavium for innovation in general-purpose computing platforms in its ThunderX ARM processing family, leading edge developments in system on a chip (SoC) designs for mobile networking in its OCTEON and OCTEON Fusion-M® products as well as its uniquely programmable XPliant NFV/SDN Ethernet switch.

"We thank ACG Research for the recognition of our efforts on multiple fronts, including switching and baseband processing, to develop the open networking technologies necessary for the deployment of large-scale telco clouds and 5G wireless networks," said Raj Singh, VP & GM, Networking Communication Group, Cavium, Inc.  "The new open core networks will enable advanced concepts, such as flexible end-to-end network slicing to address individual service requirements, and will require advanced network processing capabilities, such as those embodied in our XPliant, ThunderX, OCTEON and OCTEON Fusion-M processor families." 

“In each area of innovation Cavium is pushing the industry forward to ‘more for less’ and to do it with great flexibility. By doing this it is helping the industry move forward more rapidly toward goals its customers and stakeholders clearly value. In a changing marketplace, Cavium has demonstrated an ability to develop new solutions and technologies to address current as well as future needs and capacity,” said Paul Parker-Johnson, Principal Analyst at ACG Research. “The breadth of exciting products emanating from Cavium is a testament to their vision of NFV, the importance of the cloud, and the future of networking in many domains.”

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.

Media Contact:

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

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Cavium to Showcase ARMv8 Processor Solutions to Accelerate Next Generation Infrastructure at ARM TechCon 2016

Cloud scale deployment on ThunderX® with OpenStack, Secure IoT platform on OCTEON TX™ and MontaVista's CGX 2.0

SAN JOSE, CA – Oct. 26, 2016 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will exhibit ThunderX and OCTEON TX ARM-based solutions for next-generation Infrastructure deployments in booth# 603 at ARM TechCon 2016 from October 26-27 in Santa Clara, California.

Cavium's ThunderX ARMv8 based workload optimized processor integrates key capabilities that are critical for the most demanding Public and Private Cloud workloads. The OpenStack cloud infrastructure enables end users to fully utilize ThunderX's features for critical cloud workloads. These workloads include CEPH for cloud storage, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, MySQL and Cassandra for distributed databases, and NGNIX for secure web servers. ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Load-Balancing for Telco applications.

Cavium's OCTEON TX is a complete line of 64-bit ARM-based SoCs for control plane and data plane applications in networking, security, and storage. 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.

Cavium will present its ThunderX and OCTEON TX products, along with its partner MontaVista's CGX 2.0, in booth #603:

• Live demonstration of Openstack solution (Autopilot, JuJu Charms, MAAS) on ThunderX SoC.
• Live demonstration of Secure IoT Gateway solution based on OCTEON TX CN81xx 4-core SoC and MontaVista CGX 2.0.
• Showcase its latest OCTEON TX CN83xx, 24-core SoC for Service Centric Networks.

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About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit : http://www.cavium.com.

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

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Cavium Schedules Q2 2016 Financial Results Conference Call

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 5, 2016 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud wired and wireless networking, has scheduled its second quarter 2016 financial results conference call for 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Cavium will release the company’s second quarter financial results approximately one hour prior to the conference call.
The Cavium financial results conference call will be available via a live webcast on the investor relations section of the Cavium web site at http://www.cavium.com. Please access the web site at least a few minutes prior to the start of the call if you need to download and install any necessary audio software. An archived webcast replay will be available on the web site for a limited period. 

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 Adds Microsemi’s Storage Solutions to ThunderX® Processor Family

Frankfurt, Germany, June 21, 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 collaboration with Microsemi Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, to deliver the HBA 1000 Host Bus Adaptor for Cavium’s ThunderX processor family.

The HBA 1000 Series, part of the Microsemi Smart Storage Solutions Family, provides a robust and stable solution that can handle the toughest system workloads and configurations. It is fully compatible with all existing and future Microsemi HBA, RAID and Expander solutions. Available in five different 12Gb/s configurations with up to 16 internal or 16 external SAS/SATA ports, the HBA 1000 Series offers the highest port count in a low-profile, MD2 form factor and 60 percent less power consumption than competing HBAs.

The ThunderX product family is Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8-A serverprocessor for next generation data center and cloud applications, and features high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, high memory bandwidth and large memory capacity. The product family also includes integrated hardware accelerators, integrated feature rich high bandwidth network and storage IO, fully virtualized core and IO, and scalable high bandwidth, low latency Ethernet fabric, which affords ThunderX best-in-class performance per dollar and watt. They are fully compliant with ARMv8-A architecture specifications as well as ARM’s SBSA and SBBR standards, and widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and Software tool and application vendors.

“Microsemi works closely with our ecosystem partners to deliver resilient, efficient and easy-to-use storage connectivity solutions for worldwide data centers,” said Pete Hazen, vice president of Microsemi’s scalable solutions business unit. “Working with the Cavium team, we successfully developed an initial driver for our 12Gb/s SAS HBA 1000 solution that supports the Cavium ARM-based ThunderX server platforms and enables high performance and power efficiency needs for today’s data centers solutions such as the Cavium CloudScale RackTM.”

“Microsemi’s storage solutions are an outstanding complement to the compute performance that ThunderX delivers today,” said Larry Wikelius, Vice President Software Ecosystem and Solutions, Cavium. “This collaboration with Microsemi will provide an even greater choice for system partners and end users as they deploy ThunderX based storage intensive applications into the most demanding data center environments.  Microsemi is a great addition to our ThunderX partner community.”

About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud, 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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Sugon Announces ThunderX® Blades for Galaxias SDC1000 High Density Server for Data Centers

Frankfurt Germany, June 21, 2016 – Sugon Information Industry Co. Ltd (“Sugon”), a leader in China’s HPC sector and the largest HPC manufacturer in Asia announced availability of a new blade based on Cavium’s (NASDAQ: CAVM) ThunderX Workload Optimized™processors for Galaxis SDC1000 Data Center server platform.

Sugon Information Industry Co., Ltd (“Sugon”) is a high-tech enterprise formed on the basis of significant scientific and technological achievements under Chinese National 863 Program, with the strong drive from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Sugon specializes in the research, development and manufacture of high-performance computers, general servers and storage products, software services, system integration and other technical support for high-end server platforms. Sugon has won top spot on the list of list of China’s TOP 100 supercomputers by market share for six years in a row from 2009 to 2015. Sugon is publicly traded on Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 603019).

Sugon’s Galaxias SDC1000 server delivers a revolutionary data center platform that brings together processors, networks, storage and IO devices in a unified 4U energy efficient system. The server provides flexible balance between computing, network and storage capabilities thereby reducing resource pooling overheads. SDC1000 can be used for deploying applications such as Hadoop, Spark and resources scheduling software.

Galaxis SDC1000 can accommodate up to 16 ThunderX based blades with up to 64GB of memory per CPU. It supports both dedicated and shared storage options for the blades, dedicated 10G KR network and a 1GbE management network per blade. Each node can be provisioned on demand through a management console. Galaxias SDC1000 can scale from a single chassis with 32 nodes to multiple chassis in a rack and to multi-rack system with a 100GbE 3D torus network.

The ThunderX product family is Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8-A server processor for next generation Data Center and Cloud applications, and features high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, high memory bandwidth and large memory capacity. The product family also includes integrated hardware accelerators, integrated feature rich high bandwidth network and storage IO, fully virtualized core and IO, and scalable high bandwidth, low latency Ethernet fabric, which affords ThunderX best-in-class performance per dollar and watt. They are fully compliant with ARMv8-A architecture specifications as well as ARM’s SBSA and SBBR standards, and widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and Software tool and application vendors.

“Our customers continue to demand continued platform innovation that reduces TCO and increases workload performance: said Dr. Xiaojun Yang, Chief Engineer, Sugon Information Industry. “The ThunderX based blades for Galaxis SDC1000 enhances our platform offering to deliver optimized performance key cloud storage and big data workloads, and will allow our customers to meet growing performance demands within their existing infrastructure.”

“We are pleased to partner with Sugon Information Industry on their flagship Galaxis SDC1000 data center server platform,” said Gopal Hegde, VP/GM Data Center Processor Group, Cavium.  “The new ThunderX based blades utilize full range of capabilities of ThunderX SOCs and will deliver best-in-class performance and outstanding TCO for cloud storage and big data applications”.

Availability
ThunderX blades for Galaxias SDC1000 is sampling today.

About Sugon 
Sugon Information Industry Co., Ltd (“Sugon”) is a high-tech enterprise formed on the basis of significant scientific and technological achievements under the National 863 Program, with the strong drive from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Sugon specializes in the research, development and manufacture of high-performance computers, general servers and storage products as well as providing the service of software designing, system integration and other technical support based on high-end computers. In 2014, Sugon was successfully listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 603019).

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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IDT Collaborates with Cavium to Support Hyperscale Data Centers

IDT's DDR4 Products Deployed in Low-Energy Platform Design for Cavium's ThunderX® Family of Workload-Optimized ARM Processors

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 20, 2016 - Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) (NASDAQ: IDTI) today announced its collaboration with Cavium, Inc., on a reference design that supports the burgeoning workloads of the hyperscale data center.  The IDT® DDR4 memory interface solutions are incorporated into the reference design, which is built on Cavium's ThunderX family of workload-optimized 64-bit ARMv8-based processors.

The Cavium ThunderX® reference design can be used to build energy-efficient server solutions featuring IDT's DDR4 technology. Cavium and its industry partners developed the design to target server solutions for members of the Open Compute Project (OCP) and other hyperscale data center customers.

"IDT's DDR4 technology offering and the company's leadership in the OCP High Performance Computing Project made them the obvious choice to team with," said Rishi Chugh, director, Data Center Processor at Cavium, which similarly has a long history collaborating in the Open Compute community. "Our relationship with IDT enables us to deliver workload-optimized, flexible, scalable and efficient ARM-based server solutions to the data center market, including the growing community of the OCP."

The ThunderX product family is Cavium's server processor for next-generation data center and cloud applications, featuring high-performance custom cores, single- and dual-socket configurations, high memory bandwidth and large memory capacity. The product family also includes integrated hardware accelerators, integrated feature-rich high bandwidth network and storage IO, fully virtualized core and IO, and scalable high bandwidth, low latency Ethernet fabric.

IDT's DDR4 chipset includes register, data buffers and thermal sensors with serial presence detect (SPD). Together, they collectively enable the complete range of unbuffered dual inline memory modules (UDIMMs), registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) and load-reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs) needed to power the next generation of enterprise and data center servers.

"IDT is excited to work with partners like Cavium and industry bodies like the Open Compute Project to demonstrate the compelling value of our DDR4 chipset in hyperscale data centers," said Rami Sethi, vice president and general manager of memory interface products at IDT. "Our solution uniquely enables users to scale memory capacity without compromising data rates in order to maximize workload performance and efficiency."

IDT's DDR4 memory is part of the company's vast portfolio of technologies enabling hyperscale data servers, high-performance computing clusters and enterprise servers. IDT also offers digital power management solutions to optimize overall data center performance and power usage, enabling high-density solutions required for space-constrained servers. IDT provides an extensive high-performance timing portfolio, PCIe retimers, PCIe switches and low-latency RapidIO interconnect to enable analytics workloads in the data center.

The ThunderX reference design is available directly from Cavium.

About IDT
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions that optimize its customers' applications. IDT's market-leading products in RF, timing, wireless power transfer, serial switching, interfaces and sensing solutions are among the company's broad array of complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing, consumer, automotive and industrial segments. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol "IDTI." Additional information about IDT is accessible at www.IDT.com. Follow IDT on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.

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.

IDT Press Contact:
Dean Solov
Public Relations Manager
Phone: (408) 284-2s608
E-mail: dean.solov@idt.com

Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@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 Solutions for Cloud Infrastructure and Scale-Out Applications at OpenStack Summit Tokyo

ThunderX™ and LiquidIO® II Help Maximize Performance Per Dollar Per Watt for Key Volume Compute, Storage, Secure Compute and Networking Workloads

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct 27, 2015 – 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 ThunderX and LiquidIO II based solutions for private and public cloud infrastructure and scale out applications at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo.  The OpenStack Summit is a four-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software and is held from Tuesday October 27th through Thursday October 29th.

Cavium Product Highlights and Demonstrations (Booth T31)

Cavium’s LiquidIO II Intelligent Server adapters fully support and seamlessly integrate OpenStack software. This functionality includes:

• • 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.

Cavium’s ThunderX ARMv8 based workload optimized processor integrates key capabilities that are critical for the most demanding Public and Private Cloud workloads:

OpenStack cloud infrastructure enables end users to fully utilize ThunderX features for critical workloads such as cloud storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases such as MySQL and Cassandra and web serving with NGINX.  ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

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