Cavium Announces Financial Results for Q4 2017

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 31, 2018 – 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 financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2017. Due to the pending merger with Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (“Marvell”), the Company will not schedule an earnings conference call.

Net revenue in the fourth quarter of 2017 was $260.4 million, a 3.3% sequential increase from the $252.0 million reported in the third quarter of 2017 and 15.1% from the $226.2 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2016.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Results
Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2017 was $1.1 million, or ($0.02) per diluted share, compared to $6.2 million, or ($0.09) per diluted share in the third quarter of 2017. Gross margins were 53.9% in the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to 54.6% in the third quarter of 2017. As a percentage of revenue, GAAP loss from operations was 4.7% in the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to GAAP operating income of 0.2% in the third quarter of 2017. Total cash and cash equivalents were $140.5 million at December 31, 2017.

The GAAP results of operations in the fourth quarter of 2017 included an income tax benefit of $11.1 million as a result of the Company’s preliminary assessment of the impact of the newly enacted U.S. Tax Reform. On December 22, 2017, the United States enacted tax reform legislation through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”), which significantly changes the existing U.S. tax laws. Major reforms in the legislation include a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35.0% to 21.0%, and a move from a worldwide tax system to a territorial system. As a result of enactment of the legislation, the Company recognized a tax benefit mentioned above due to the reduction in its net long term deferred tax liabilities recorded on its consolidated balance sheet. Although the Company believes the amount of recognized tax benefit is a reasonable estimate of the income tax effects of the Act, it should be considered provisional and may differ from the amounts that will be reported in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 as the Company continuously refines its assessment of the impact. Further, the final assessment of the impact of the Act may differ due to and among other things, changes in interpretations, assumptions made by the Company, the issuance of additional guidance, and actions the Company may take as a result of tax reform. The SEC has issued rules which allow for a measurement period of up to one year after the enactment date of the Act to finalize the accounting for the related tax impacts. Any adjustments to these provisional amounts will be reported as a component of income tax expense or benefit in the reporting period in which any such adjustments are determined, which will be no later than the fourth quarter of 2018.

Non-GAAP Results
Cavium believes that the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures provides important supplemental information to management and investors regarding financial and business trends relating to Cavium’s financial condition and results of operations. Cavium believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide additional insight into Cavium’s ongoing performance and core operational activities and has chosen to provide these measures for more consistent and meaningful comparison between periods. These measures should only be used to evaluate Cavium’s results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures. The Non-GAAP results exclude the effect of stock-based compensation and related payroll taxes, amortization of acquisition related assets, acquisition related inventory charges, acquisition and integration related costs, tax reform impact and acquisition related tax adjustment. The acquisition and integration related costs in the fourth quarter of 2017 included various transaction-related charges associated with the pending Merger with Marvell, primarily financial advisory and outside legal fees. The reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP financial results is provided in the financial statements portion of this release.

In the fourth quarter of 2017, Non-GAAP net income was $60.8 million, or $0.83 per diluted share, Non-GAAP gross margin was 65.2% and Non-GAAP income from operations as a percentage of revenue was 24.2%.

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• November 7, 2017 - University of Michigan Partners with Cavium™ on Big Data Computing Platform for U-M Researchers

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 further information, please visit the investor relations section of the Cavium web site at http://www.cavium.com.

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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
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Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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University of Michigan Partners with Cavium on Big Data Computing Platform for U-M Researchers

Cavium’s ThunderX Workload optimized processor with Hortonworks HDP® to Provide Scalable Storage and Analytic Software Framework

SAN JOSE, CA, November 07, 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 and the University of Michigan today announced a new partnership that will position U-M as a leader in data-intensive scientific research by creating a powerful Big Data computing cluster using dual socket servers powered by Cavium’s ThunderX® ARMv8-A workload optimized processors.

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.

The $3.5 million ThunderX computing cluster will enable U-M researchers to, for example, process massive amounts of data generated by remote sensors in distributed manufacturing environments, or by test fleets of automated and connected vehicles.

U-M and Cavium chose to run the cluster on Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®) which is based on open source Apache™ Hadoop.  The ThunderX cluster will deliver high performance compute services for the Hadoop analytics and ultimately a total of 3 petabytes of storage space.

"U-M scientists are conducting groundbreaking research in Big Data already, in areas like connected and automated transportation, learning analytics, precision medicine and social science,” said Eric Michielssen, Associate Vice President for Advanced Research Computing (ARC). "This partnership with Cavium will accelerate the pace of data-driven research and opening up new avenues of inquiry."

“I know from experience that U-M researchers are capable of amazing discoveries,” said Syed Ali, MSEE ‘81, founder and CEO of Cavium.  “Cavium is honored to help break new ground in Big Data research at one of the top universities in the world.”

“Hortonworks is excited to be a part of forward leading research at University of Michigan exploring low-powered, high performance computing,” said Nadeem Asghar, Vice President and Global Head Technical Alliances at Hortonworks.  “We see this as a great opportunity to further expand the platform and segment enablement for Hortonworks and the ARM community.”

Alec Gallimore, Dean of the U-M College of Engineering, said the Cavium partnership is a milestone in the development of the college and the university.  “It is clear that the ability to rapidly gain insights into vast amounts of data is key to the next wave of engineering and science breakthroughs,” he said. “Without a doubt, the Cavium platform will allow our faculty and researchers to harness the power of Big Data, both in the classroom and in their research.” 

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/.

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

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Cavium and China Unicom Announce Trials of M-CORD NFV/5G Platforms in China

Demonstrates platform combining ThunderX® ARM V8.1 workload optimized data center server processors and XPliant® SDN fabric at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2017

SAN JOSE, CA, and SHANGHAI, CHINA June 28, 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 and China Unicom today announced a targeted program for testing 5G target use cases on M-CORD SDN/NFV platform by using Cavium silicon-based white box hardware in M-CORD racks populated with ThunderX® ARM-based data center COTS servers and XPliant® programmable SDN Ethernet switch-based white box switches.

China Unicom and Cavium will shortly commence trials in several locations in mainland China to explore the new service.

Cavium and China Unicom will demonstrate Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) use cases developed through previously announced collaboration with China Unicom utilizing the ON.Lab M-CORD (Mobile Central Office Re-architected as data center) SDN/NFV platform at the Mobile World Congress Shanghai from Jun 28th – Jun 30th 2017. The conference will take place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), in the China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd (“China Unicom”) booth at stand location W4.B20.

This M-CORD SDN/NFV software platform and hardware rack are fully integrated with virtualized and disaggregated mobile infrastructure elements from the edge of the Radio Access Network (RAN) to distributed mobile core and the ONOS and XOS SDN and orchestration software. It allows for a virtually turn-key operation in any central office or edge data center for a full NFV C-RAN deployment. The solution is a full Cavium powered rack combining the ThunderX® ARM based data center servers with the award winning highly programmable XPliant Ethernet leaf and spine SDN switches which enable a compelling platform for M-CORD.

“We are very excited to collaborate with China Unicom to explore 5G target use cases leveraging the M-CORD SDN/NFV platform and to work towards field deployment. A homogenous hardware architecture fully optimized for NFV and 5G functions is a key pre-requisite for field deployments,” said Raj Singh Vice President & General Manager of the Network & Communication Group at Cavium. “This differentiated and highly scalable implementation of M-CORD platform using Cavium silicon based white box hardware will allow operators such as China Unicom to rapidly implement next generation network topologies.”

“Our collaboration with Cavium continues to deliver real progress and we are looking forward to trying M-CORD and virtualized RAN implementation in our network,” said Dr. Tang Xiongyan, Chief Scientist of Network Technology Research Institute, China Unicom. “We believe that our partnership will provide significant benefits to both parties.”

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 about the Company, please visit: http://www.cavium.com/.

About China Unicom 
China Unicom was officially established on 15 October 2008, and is committed to forging itself into a world-leading innovative ICT service provider. As of 2015, China Unicom is ranked 207 among the Fortune Global 500. As a leading operator providing both fixed-line and mobile services in China, the subscriber number of fixed service and mobile service is more than 300 million, and its service covers 31 provincial branches and 7 overseas operations. It has about 400,000 employees. For more information about China Unicom, please visit  http://www.chinaunicom.com.cn

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Cavium, Inc.
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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
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager

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

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Cavium to Showcase Extensive Portfolio of Solutions for 5G Infrastructure at Mobile World Congress 2017

SAN JOSE, CA and 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 will showcase an array of the company’s extensive portfolio of products and technologies for 5G Networks, TelcoCloud, NFV/SDN and Radio Access Networks based on OCTEON Fusion-M® baseband processors, ThunderX® COTS ARMV8 processors, OCTEON TX™ and LiquidIO® Intelligent NICs at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

The Wireless Infrastructure market is poised to grow at a substantial double digit % CAGR till 2025 fueled in large part by the densification of existing networks and the advent of new NFV/5G standards. Higher data rates, reduced latencies, faster processing are all driving the industry to innovate in new and exciting ways. 5G technologies are enabling a host of new high volume applications including fixed broadband wireless, edge computing for autonomous cars, IOT infrastructure backend for the billions of new connected devices coming online over the next few years. These new applications are expected to drive substantial growth in coming years. At Mobile World Congress 2017 Cavium continues to showcase its leadership position in wireless infrastructure products with key technology and product announcements.

Show Product Demonstrations
Cavium will feature the following product demonstrations in Hall 2, Stand 2M33:

• M–CORD Demonstration -  SDN, NFV, C–RAN and Mobile Edge Computing Open source SDN/NFV demonstration based on Cavium’s collaboration with ON.Lab and multiple network operators. M–CORD is the Mobile – Central Office Re–architected as data center project. The M-CORD rack in the Cavium booth showcases Cavium’s ThunderX 64-bit ARM processors and highly programmable SDN switches.

• Telecom Infra Project to Enable OpenCellular Access to LTE – allowing TIP OpenCellular members to access, design and deploy equipment for the latest LTE standards.

• OCTEON Fusion-M Multi-Protocol, Multi-Sector MicroCell CNF73xx for LTE/LTE-A/WCDMA/GSM enabling a new category of low cost micro base station

• 64–bit ARM Processors for COTS Servers, Carrier–Grade NFV across cloud/edge/on–premise, IoT gateway, Embedded Applications. ThunderX servers and OCTEON TX ODM boxes supported by a rich ecosystem of OS distros, application stacks, data plane acceleration libraries, Ceph storage and more.

• Telco Cloud Security and NFV Acceleration - Liquid IO intelligent Adapters enable network virtualization for network and security acceleration including OVS, vRouter, Firewall, IPSec, NFV based virtual appliances and Service Function Chaining.

• QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet Adapter Family - 10/25/50/100 GbE Ethernet connectivity with DPDK, NVMf with Universal RDMA, OVS, SDN Tunneling and OpenStack support for Telco and Private/Hybrid Cloud applications.

• Security as a Service for TelcoCloud - LiquidSecurity appliance for key authentication and management in the cloud.

To schedule a meeting at Mobile World Congress, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter MWC 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, 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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Cavium and Trend Micro Introduce Mobile Edge Computing and NFV Solutions on ThunderX® and OCTEON TX™ Platforms

Delivers Virtualized Network Security Solutions for ARM-based COTS and vCPE Servers

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, and Trend Micro, a global leader in cyber security solutions, today announced the availability of Trend Micro™ Virtual Network Function Suite (VNFS) on Cavium’s ARMv8 ThunderX data center COTS server processors and OCTEON TX multicore processors.  The companies will showcase mobile edge services which include Trend Micro’s VNFS security virtual network functions as part of Cavium’s live virtualized network infrastructure demonstration at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

“Cavium is showcasing its technology capability to support full End to End 5G use case include Security, Core and Radio Access Networks,” Said Raj Singh, Vice President of Cavium’s Networking and Communications Group. “In addition to the ThunderX processor technologies that run the 5G RAN, the virtualized BBU and mobile core functions, we are also partnering with network threat security leader, Trend Micro, to show operators and telco equipment manufacturers commercial VNFs and services running on a live MEC and NFV platform.”

“Trend Micro believes that an advanced ARM server architecture will benefit telecom operators as they make the transition to a data center-centric 5G model,” said Dr. Terence Liu, Vice President, Network Threat Defense, at Trend Micro.  “Cavium’s end-to-end platform offerings, particularly the ARMv8 ThunderX server family, allow us to offer flexible, high-performance virtual network security functions for the edge of the network to the core.”

Cavium’s live, open source SDN/NFV demonstration based on the ONF/ON.Lab Mobile CORD will also feature Trend Micro™ Virtual Network Function Suite at MWC 2017. 


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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GIGABYTE and Cavium Announce Official Release of Production-Ready ThunderX®-based Servers

Collaboration brings the world's most powerful 64-bit ARM® based servers to market to address increasingly demanding application and workload requirements

SHANGHAI, China., July 19, 2016 –GIGABYTE Technology (TWSE: 2376), a leading manufacturer of motherboards and barebones for server applications, and Cavium Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, cloud, and data center, today announced a line-up of products built on the industry-leading ThunderX  family of workload-optimized ARM server SoCs.

 At a joint event in Shanghai, GIGABYTE and Cavium officially announced the release of a range of 14 server SKUs – the results of co-operation based on the Cavium ThunderX platform, utilizing GIGABYTE's almost 20 years of experience in the server industry. With these products, the partnership has produced a compelling, high performance alternative to the incumbent solutions in the market. GIGABYTE and Cavium had the honor of inviting ecosystem partners - ARM, Innodisk, Linaro, Qlogic, Red Hat, and Suse - all of which have committed resource to bringing ARM-based servers to the mainstream enterprise market - as guest speakers at the event. GIGABYTE and Cavium are working with these stakeholders to bring higher performance-per-dollar to the server market and open up a range of potential new applications.

This solution targets high performance volume servers deployed by Public/Private Cloud and Telco data centers. It is optimized for key Data Center workloads including compute, security, storage, and distributed databases. GIGABYTE ThunderX servers deliver comparable performance at a more compelling TCO than traditional x86 server systems.

Key GIGABYTE ThunderX Server Features
GIGABYTE has utilized its know-how to become the first and only server vendor to capture the benefits of Cavium’s revolutionary design and bring disruptive new solutions to the market through production-ready server products, which bring about:

• Adoption of the first dual-socket ARM SoC architecture that scales up to 48 cores per processor with up to 2.0 GHz core frequency
• The highest integrated I/O capability with up to 160Gb of I/O bandwidth
• Four DDR4 72 bit memory controllers capable of supporting up to 1TB of memory in a dual socket configuration at 2133MHz
• Best in class performance per watt and performance per dollar for storage and compute applications
• A comprehensive range of designs, from cost-focused entry level solutions to high density storage and compute focused platforms

"GIGABYTE has developed and is already shipping a range of Cavium ThunderX-based server products to customers in US, Europe and Asia," said Andy Chen, AVP, Network and Communications Business Unit, GIGABYTE. "Our comprehensive portfolio of ThunderX-based systems is available for order and a number of customers have already received production units. We are seeing strong demand for these ARM-based platforms – especially from cloud service providers."

A comprehensive ecosystem is key to the development of a market for ARM-based servers. To this end, we have been working with stakeholders across the value chain. GIGABYTE’s release partners contributed their views on co-operation and the market in general:

ARM:
"The momentum for ARM-based servers is building and the new range of server products from GIGABYTE and Cavium enhances choice for companies seeking to match compute needs with the most energy and cost-effective solutions,” said Lakshmi Mandyam, senior marketing director of server program, ARM. “It is excellent to see ARM partners at the heart of driving innovative solutions that are delivering to the rigorous demands of cloud data center application and workload diversity.”

CAVIUM:
“The ARM server market is beginning to expand and grow and mature” said Rishi Chugh, Director, Data Center Processor Group at Cavium. “GIGABYTE is the perfect partner to lead this effort and showcase the breadth of ThunderX-based workload optimized server platforms delivering the flexibility and performance required for next generation cloud data centers.” 

Red Hat:
"Red Hat1 has been collaborating with GIGABYTE for quite some time via the Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program, as they worked to develop systems based on Cavium's ThunderX processor family," said Tim Burke, vice president, Linux Engineering, Red Hat. "These new, scalable servers serve as an excellent example of the technical innovation and standardization efforts within the growing ARM ecosystem. We are very pleased that as a result of our joint efforts we currently have Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM Development Preview running on GIGABYTE systems in lab and development environments."

Innodisk:
“Innodisk is a leading provider of industrial-grade storage solutions. Innodisk’s miniDIMM and RDIMM series solutions, especially aimed at server and telecommunication applications, have been certified by GIGABYTE and Cavium. Innodisk has collaborated with GIGABYTE and CAVIUM for years and looks forward to continuing to provide the best storage solutions in this field,” said Samson Chang, Vice President, Embedded DRAM division of Innodisk.

SUSE
“SUSE’s collaboration with Cavium and GIGABYTE has helped to bring AArch64 and cloud solutions to our customers, a development which is also highly meaningful for the development of the industry,” said Andy Jiang, Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan General Manager with SUSE. “With the hyper-scale hardware of GIGABYTE, SUSE can now deliver the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Enterprise Storage and SUSE OpenStack Cloud to our clients. Cavium and GIGABYTE have demonstrated strong leadership in the ARM server market, and SUSE will work continue to closely with them.” 

QLogic:
“The advent of data center-class ARM processors provide end users options to tailor hardware to suit specific workloads,” said Greg Scherer, vice president and CTO, QLogic. “The new ThunderX-based servers push the envelope of compute and drive the need for higher speed I/O.” 

About GIGABYTE
GIGABYTE, headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is known as a global brand in the IT industry, with employees and business channels in almost every country. Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE started as a research and development team and has since taken the lead in the world's motherboard and graphics card markets.

On top of motherboards and graphics cards, GIGABYTE has become a leading producer of server hardware. Taking advantage of many years of know-how in motherboard design and manufacturing, GIGABYTE uses the most reliable components and aims for the highest quality standards only. This focus on excellence has allowed the company to work successfully with the biggest names in the server industry over the years, fueling its dedication to keep creating innovative server solutions for the future.

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.

GIGABYTE Contact
Stuart Coyle
Marketing Communications
Telephone: +886-2-8912-4000
Email:  stuart.coyle@GIGABYTE.com

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

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