Cavium Completes Octeon II Line

摘要

Chips are breeding faster than rabbits at Cavium, the rapidly growing supplier of networking and security processors. Today, Cavium announced four new series in the 64-bit Octeon II family, populating a product line that now spans an unprecedented range from 1 to 32 CPU cores per processor chip. The new Octeon II series are the CN60xx, CN61xx, CN62xx, and CN66xx. They join the CN63xx, CN67xx, and CN68xx series announced earlier this year. (See MPR 5/31/10-02, "Cavium Pushes Octeon to 32 CPUs.") The new brood fills the low-end to midrange Octeon II line, leaving no significant gaps. Family members differ in their number of CPUs, clock speeds, L2 caches, memory controllers, networking accelerators, packet interfaces, and other I/O. Despite these differences, Cavium preserves pin compatibility among similar chips, as Figure 1 shows.