Cavium Inc. - American Fabless Company, a manufacturer of semiconductor devices, processors , systems on a chip (SoC, SoC), equipment for computer networks and data warehouses.
| Cavium Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Type of | Public |
| Listing on the exchange | |
| Base | 2001 |
| Abolished | July 6, 2018 |
| Reason for abolition | absorbed by Marvell Technology Group |
| Location | San Jose ( California , United States ) |
| Key figures | Sayed Ali ( CEO and co-founder ) Hussein Raghib ( co-founder ) |
| Industry | Semiconductors , network equipment, data storage systems |
| Number of employees | 1831 (2017) [1] |
| Parent company | Marvell Technology Group |
| Affiliated companies | QLogic |
| Site | cavium.com |
History
Cavium Networks was founded in 2001 by American engineers and entrepreneurs Syed Ali and Hussein Ragib .
The company began its activities with the design and release of specialized microprocessors on the MIPS64 architecture used in network and communication devices for building network infrastructure [2] .
In the network segment, Cavium used up to 16 MIPS cores in the OCTEON device family [3] .
On June 17, 2011, it was announced that the company had changed its name from Cavium Networks and now it will simply be called Cavium Inc.
From 2014, the company begins to produce a series of server - based multi-core processors ( SoC ) on the ARM architecture under the ThunderX (48-core SoC) and ThunderX2 (54-core 64-bit SoC) brands [4] .
In June 2016, for $ 1 billion, Cavium acquired all the assets of QLogic , a computer equipment and data warehouse equipment manufacturer that designs and manufactures HBAs and HCA controllers, converged network adapters, switches and routers for storage networks [5] .
And in November 2017, it was announced that the company Marvell Technology Group will absorb Cavium for $ 6 billion (in cash + shares) [6] [7] .
In the spring of 2018, multi-core Cavium ThunderX2 server processors (with a maximum configuration of 54 cores with a frequency of up to 3 GHz) became widely available on the market and the company managed to secure a partnership from such well-known manufacturers as Cray , HPE , Atos and Penguin Computing [8] .
In the middle of 2018, a deal between Marvell Technology and Cavium was completely closed, and since the autumn of 2018, the newest supercomputers such as: British Isambard [9] , French Atos BullSequana X1310 [10] and American Cray Shasta began to be built on multi-core server processors Marvell ThunderX2 [11] .
Products
- Multicore processors ARM- architecture ThunderX (48-core SoC) and ThunderX2 (54-core 64-bit SoC);
- branded network solutions;
- network solutions for storage ;
- data protection solutions.
Notes
- ↑ Cavium, Inc. (CAVM) - Yahoo! Finance.
- ↑ Junko Yoshida, EE Times. " 'Blow-out quarter' highlights MIPS comeback ." August 5, 2010. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
- ↑ Doug Mohney, The Inquirer. “ Cavium Hotrods MIPS architecture .” June 25, 2007. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
- ↑ 54-core CAM-based ThunderX2 ARM chips will be faster than Intel Xeon E5 . 3DNews (June 1, 2016). The appeal date is November 7, 2017.
- ↑ Cavium buys QLogic: bargain for a billion . 3DNews (June 16, 2016). The appeal date is November 7, 2017.
- ↑ Marvell and Cavium announced plans to merge their businesses . Servernews.ru (November 21, 2017). The appeal date is November 16, 2018.
- Chip Marvell Technology to buy chipmaker Cavium for about $ 6 billion , Ars Technica (November 20, 2017). The appeal date is November 16, 2018.
- ↑ Cavium ThunderX2 processors are now available in bulk . ServerNews.ru (May 11, 2018). The appeal date is May 11, 2018.
- ↑ Tests point to excellent prospects for ARM chips on the HPC market . 3DNews (July 6, 2018). The appeal date is November 16, 2018.
- ↑ The French research center will install a supercomputer on ARM . ServerNews.ru (November 11, 2018). The appeal date is November 16, 2018.
- ↑ The Cray Shasta supercomputer platform will combine X86, ARM, GPU and FPGA . ServerNews.ru (November 1, 2018). The appeal date is November 16, 2018.