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Marvell Announces OCTEON TX2 Family of Multi-Core Infrastructure Processors
Fifth generation OCTEON family supports 4 to 36 Arm v8 cores coupled with comprehensive set of hardware accelerators for networking, security, and wireless
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[{"type":"text","content":"Fifth generation OCTEON family supports 4 to 36 Arm v8 cores coupled with comprehensive set of hardware accelerators for networking, security, and wireless infrastructure applications\n\n\nSANTA CLARA, Calif., March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced OCTEON® TX2, the latest family of infrastructure processors targeting a wide variety of wired and wireless networking equipment including switches, routers, secure gateways, firewall, network monitoring, 5G base stations, and smart network interface controllers (NICs). Massive increases in data traffic coupled with escalating requirements for end-to-end security are intensifying the need for highly scalable compute platforms with integrated workload-optimized hardware accelerators to meet performance, power and total cost of ownership requirements. Building on five generations of the industry's most scalable and widely adopted infrastructure processor platform, the OCTEON TX2 family is enabled by a broad software ecosystem including a feature-rich software development kit (SDK) and virtualization support, delivering a unique combination of performance and programmability. The OCTEON TX2 portfolio extends Marvell's industry-leading performance and scalability, delivering a 2.5x improvement over the previous generation and scaling up to 200Gbps of packet processing throughput.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nMarvell's OCTEON TX2 infrastructure processor family combines up to 36 cores, based on the Arm® v8-A architecture with configurable and programmable hardware accelerator blocks, connected by Marvell's field-proven and highly scalable coherent interconnect. Compared to architectures that process data solely on CPU cores, these accelerator blocks – which include security, packet processing, and traffic management functions – are able to meet the most demanding performance and power requirements. The integrated hardware accelerators offer 2.5x improvement over Marvell's previous generation of OCTEON processors with scalable throughput ranging from 10Gbps to over 200 Gbps making them ideal for 5G base station and transport network infrastructure, security, cloud and data center, enterprise networking, and intelligent offload applications. \nThe OCTEON platform is enabled by a mature and widely deployed SDK, supported by robust software ecosystems consisting of bo...