Cavium Partners with IBM for Next Generation Platforms by Joining OpenCAPI

Cavium will leverage OpenCAPI to accelerate data center workloads

SAN JOSE, CA – December 5, 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 is partnering with IBM for next generation platforms by joining OpenCAPI, an initiative founded by IBM, Google, AMD and others.  OpenCAPI provides high-bandwidth, low latency interface optimized to connect accelerators, IO devices and memory to CPUs. With this announcement Cavium plans to bring its leadership in server IO and security offloads to next generation platforms that support the OpenCAPI interface.

Traditional system architectures are becoming a bottleneck for new classes of data-centric applications that require faster access to peripheral resources like memory, I/O and accelerators. For the efficient deployment and success of such applications, it is imperative to put the compute power closer to the data. OpenCAPI, a mature and complete specification enables such a server design, that can increase datacenter server performance by several times, enabling corporate and cloud data centers to speed up big data, machine learning, analytics, and other emerging workloads. Capable of 25Gbits per second data rate, OpenCAPI delivers the best in class performance, enabling the maximum utilization of high speed I/O devices like Cavium Fibre Channel adapters, low latency Ethernet NICs, programmable SmartNIC and security solutions.

Cavium delivers the industry's most comprehensive family of I/O adapters and network acclerators which have the potential to be seamlessly inegrated into OpenCAPI based systems. Cavium's portfolio includes FastLinQ^®Ethernet Adapters, Converged Networking Adapters, LiquidIO^® SmartNICs, Fibre Channel Adapters and NITROX^® Security Accelerators that cover the entire spectrum for data-centric application connectivity, offload and accleration requirements.

"We welcome Cavium to the OpenCAPI consortium to fuel innovation for today's data-intensive cognitive workloads," said Bob Picciano, Senior Vice President, IBM Cognitive Systems. “Together, we will tap into Cavium's next-generation technology, including networking and accelerators, and work in tandem with other partners' systems technology to unleash high-performance capabilities for our clients' data center workloads."

“We are excited to be a part of the OpenCAPI consortium. As our partnership with IBM continues to grow, we see more synergies in high speed communication and Artificial Intelligence applications.” said Syed Ali, founder and CEO of Cavium.  “We look forward to working with IBM to enable exponential performance gains for these applications.”

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.

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Cavium OCTEON III Multi-Core Processor Family Powering Next Generation Advanced Security Appliances

SAN JOSE, CA, March 1, 2016 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced that its latest processing technologies are enabling a new wave of advanced security appliances. Based upon the latest generation of scalable security products including OCTEON® III multicore processors and NITROX® security processors, these solutions address a wide range of price and performance points to allow secure scaling across the whole spectrum of deployment scenarios utilizing a common architectural and software framework within product lines.

With the rapid growth of multi–tenant data centers and expansion of enterprise boundaries over the cloud, vulnerability of the network infrastructure has increased. This trend mandates implementation of security at multiple layers of the network. In addition, Cloud data centers are securing all networking infrastructure to prevent attacks and security breaches. Enterprises, data centers and service provider infrastructure are driving to move and deploy comprehensive Layer 3 to Layer 7 security across every node as well as fully encrypted node to node traffic both within the LAN as well as the WAN. These trends are driving strong momentum in the security segment for Cavium products. Cavium continues to be a leading solution provider in this market with a comprehensive product portfolio.

The OCTEON III product line provides a multicore processing platform spanning anywhere from 1 to 48 cores on a single SoC with advanced on–chip acceleration for high–throughput networking, encryption, and deep packet inspection supporting throughputs as high as 100Gbps. The OCTEON III generation provides a major increase in compute and adds the latest encryption algorithm support. Additionally, the deep packet inspection technology is able to identify millions of different threat patterns with very high–complexity signatures.

“Cavium‘s OCTEON III product line has provided a substantial leap in processing performance, throughput, and security acceleration capabilities. Our continued collaboration is key to enabling Palo Alto Networks to deliver a whole new generation of products with unprecedented capability to counter the massive increase in the number and sophistication of security threats”, said Barun Kar, Vice President of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks.

“We are extremely pleased to work with Palo Alto Networks and provide critical technologies to support their rapid innovation and deployment of new security platforms”, said Raghib Hussain, Corporate VP/GM and CTO of Cavium Inc.

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 and service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit:http://www.cavium.com.

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

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