Cavium Announces New Low Power 16-core OCTEON III SoC Processors for Next Generation Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Infrastructure

Cavium, Inc., CAVM, a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced the addition of two new pin-compatible families CN73XX and CN72XX to its leading OCTEON® III MIPS64® multi-core processor line, providing a powerful solution for mid-range performance points spanning 4 to 16 cores. These new low-power processor families deliver industry-leading compute and packet performance for devices in this class, along with powerful networking, virtualization and multi-layer security acceleration, while meeting the stringent power requirements of compact and resilient networking and security appliances, storage appliances, wireless infrastructure, switches, and integrated routers. These two product families fill out the mid-range of the OCTEON III family between the 1 to 4-core CN70/71XX and 24 to 48-core CN78XX. Global mobile data traffic will increase nearly 11-fold between 2013 and 2018 (61% CAGR), while cloud data center IP traffic will more than double between 2014 and 2017 (30% CAGR) according to Cisco's Visual Networking Index and Global Cloud Index. As a result, See full press release