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 Announces Expansion of OCTEON Fusion-M® Baseband Products

Entry Level, Multi-Sector, Multi-RAT CNF73xx SoC enables Outdoor Micro Cell Basestations

SAN JOSE, CA; BARCELONA, SPAIN Feb 27, 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, today announced the latest addition to its OCTEON Fusion-M portfolio of wireless infrastructure processors.

Market Dynamics for Radio Access Networks
As radio networks increasingly use higher frequency bands, the demand for high output, high user count micro cells with full macro BTS capabilities at significantly lower cost of deployment has increased dramatically, not just for traditional infill use but also for providing densification in urban areas or in public host neutral applications.

Operators are seeing increased need for low cost, low power micro basestations, providing coverage in sparse deployments like small towns and rural areas in both developed and emerging economies. Unlike historical attempts at small cell offerings, the OCTEON Fusion-M microcell technology is directly derived from the larger full featured macro cell SoCs. The OCTEON Fusion-M family is fully featured and software compatible allowing excellent re-use.

The continuous and relentless increase in data traffic and the ever increasing demands for increased data rates for end users will impact how cellular networks are deployed in the future. Providing high system capacity and high per-user data rates – requirements critical for the creation of a 5G network – will require a densification of the radio access network or the deployment of additional network nodes. Increases in the number of cells will allow the traffic per square-meter to be increased resulting in a significant improvement in achievable data rates.

New Category Single Chip MicroCell: Laying the foundation of Dense HetNets, Multi-RAT and 5G standards

The OCTEON Fusion-M CNF73xx processors are single chip solutions for micro BTS, Digital DAS and Host Neutral applications, for full L1-L7 processing on a single SoC.  The CNF73xx is an entry level, scaled down version of the OCTEON Fusion CNF75xx product, delivering the lowest power per user for this class of radio cell. The key features include highly optimized full custom processor cores, a highly efficient caching subsystem, high memory bandwidth and a very flexible and high performance PHY. They also include a host of high speed I/O configurations and innovative wireless specific hardware accelerators providing high throughput system radio performance along with very high user counts.

Feature highlights:

• Highly integrated multi-protocol single chip 4 sector 8T8R MIMO with up to 4 cores running up to 1.2 GHz core frequency
• A range of user counts from 512 to 1,024 simultaneous active users
• Multi-Protocol (LTE/LTE-A/LTE-U/WCDMA/GSM) (LTE Rel 12) SoC
• Fully configurable Wireless Baseband Module based on VLIW DSP cores, comprehensive PHY hardware accelerators, custom XBAR and PHY Shared memory
• Hardware Beam Forming
• Integrated I/O capacity including JESD207P/JESD204B,10GE, SGMII, PCIe v3.0

The new CNF73xx family offers simultaneous multi-sector, multi-protocol support with very flexible antenna mapping. As part of its many advanced features the CNF73xx family also provides native beam-forming hardware support as well as a range of RF interfaces for external high output radios.

“Cavium has taken its successful OCTEON Fusion-M technology and retooled it at a rapidly growing market,” said Jag Bolaria, Principal Analyst of the Linley Group. “The need for densification of networks is apparent and this new offering provides operators another solution in their portfolio on the path to 5G in the future.”

“The OCTEON Fusion-M CNF73xx provides a very cost effective solution for operators to deploy both host neutral or high capacity outdoor micro BaseStations to build out their existing networks,” said Raj Singh, VP of Cavium’s Network and Communications Group.  “We continue to focus on baseband processor innovation, software integration and cost-efficient hardware platform designs in response to emerging market needs.”

Availability
The OCTEON Fusion-M CNF73xx family of processors along with a range of hardware reference platforms are sampling now to select customers.

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.

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

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