Cavium Networks Announces Breakthrough Next Generation OCTEON™ II Multi-core MIPS64® Internet Application Processor Family with 1 to 32 Cores

Source: Cavium Networks press release
Cavium Networks, a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, storage, wireless and video applications, today announced the OCTEON II Internet Application Processor (IAP) family of multi-core MIPS64® processors. The OCTEON II IAP offers up to 4x performance over the existing and widely deployed OCTEON Plus processor family, with more than twice the performance/watt and performance/dollar. In addition, the new product family adds revolutionary new application acceleration engines. The new OCTEON II IAP processor family is designed to fuel the voice, video and data convergence driven by cloud computing, virtualization, HD video over IP, Web 2.0 and mobile 3G/4G applications which require a many fold increase in packet processing, secure application delivery and quality of service (QoS) performance.