Cavium Joins ARM-Server Fray

摘要

Cavium is the leading vendor of multicore MIPS processors and has used ARM CPUs in only its low-end Econa line. That situation changed dramatically earlier this month as Cavium announced it will enter the server market with future ARM-based multicore processors. To enable it to develop custom 64-bit ARM CPUs, the company revealed it has obtained an ARMv8 architecture license. It disclosed this development project, called Thunder, but withheld product details, including any word on availability. We expect the first Thunder processors to reach production in 2H14.