Cavium announced availability of both single socket and dual socket versions of its ARMv8 ThunderX family of processors aimed at next generation data center and cloud infrastructure.
It is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture as well as ARM’s Server Base System Architecture (SBSA), while bringing to market significant enhancements including:
- The first ARM based SoC that scales from 24 to 48 cores in a pin compatible foot print.
- The first ARM based SoC to be fully cache coherent across dual sockets using Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI).
- Integrated I/O capacity with hundreds of Gigabits of I/O bandwidth.
- Up to four DDR3/4 72 bit memory controllers capable of supporting 2400MHz memories up to 1TB of memory capacity in a dual socket configuration.
- Hundreds of integrated hardware accelerators for security, storage, networking and virtualization.
- Standard based low latency Ethernet fabric enabling interconnections of thousands of ThunderX nodes.
- Full system virtualization using Cavium virtSoC technology.
“Over the past decade, Cavium has been a pioneer in delivering high performance, multi-core processors to the market. ThunderX is our flagship ARMv8 multi core processor family with the highest core counts and the most comprehensive set of I/O and accelerators in the market. The ThunderX based solutions are fully optimized for a wide variety of next-generation Data Center and cloud workloads,” said Gopal Hegde, VP/GM of Data Center Processor Group at Cavium. “ThunderX is a disruptive technology that enables our customers to deliver highly integrated, high performance, best in class platforms,” he added.
http://www.cavium.com/ThunderX_ARM_Processors.html
