Back in May last year, Intel has considered the possibility of providing services for contract manufacturing of chips, and in February 2012 the company entered into an agreement with the Tabula industrial giant, under which Intel will manufacture chips for 22-nm FPGA technology.
Intel will be the next client to Netronome company, a new generation of stream processors, which will be based on 22nm technology with FinFET transistors. Under the terms of cooperation, Netronome engineers have access to a suite of Intel EDA, which will facilitate the process of designing processors allowing for process technology.
Stream Processors Netronome used for various network tasks (processing and verification of data packets, control security, virtualization, I / O operations and other things) at speeds up to 100 Gbit / s. Netronome products specifically designed to work together with x86-compatible solutions.
Intel and Netronome Cooperation began in 2007 when the latter received a license to manufacture and distribution of network processors Intel IXP28XX. Subsequently, the development of Netronome took a series of next-generation products IXP, and in 2010 introduced a stream processor NFP-3240 with its own architecture. As expected, the delivery of solutions Netronome, made on 22 nm technology, will begin in 2013.