Cavium Networks has introduced the OCTEON II CN63XX two to six core MIPS64 processors that have a speed of up to 10.8GHz. Each of the processor's core runs at a maximum speed of 1.8GHz. The company claims that the 1.8GHz operating frequency enables customers to increase their performance along with R&D investment re-use.
High per-core frequency allows the company to address markets such as high-end control plane, and integrated control and data plane applications. Coupled with the shipment of the company's OCTEON II CN6880 processor, which provides up to 48GHz of 64bit compute power across 32 cores, the availability of the processors enables OEM designs to market applications with software compatibility and multi-chip scalability. The processors are suitable for products such as routers, switches, 3 and 4G base-stations, services cards, security gateways and appliances, storage networking and mobile infrastructure equipment.
The processors also include a 2Mbit shared L2 cache, DDR3 controller, integrated 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface, GbE, sRIO and PCIe Gen2 I/O's. They also feature hardware acceleration for encryption and decryption, deep packet inspection, packet processing and compression and decompression.
