Cavium company , which develops network processors, today announced its intention to adopt 64-bit version of micro-ARMv8, which the British holding company ARM announced in October last year. Cavium Solutions is oriented to the equipment for cloud data centers.
Processors, code-named Thunder complement an assortment of series solutions Cavium Octeon and Nitrox. It is known that Thunder will be single chip systems, and will combine the computing core and a full set of I / O Controller. Cavium now refuses to disclose the technical details of future media architecture and offers ARMv8 .
As stated, the use of ARM architecture will enable Cavium to provide customers with up to 10 times more favorable combination of price, performance and power consumption compared to competing solutions.