Netronome Extends Strategic Relationship with Intel

Netronome’s (News - Alert) next-generation flow processors will be manufactured on Intel’s (News - Alert) leading 22nm process. Netronome, a developer of flow processors, has announced an extension of its strategic relationship with Intel to this end.

As per the agreement between the two companies, Netronome will offer the world’s first flow processors based on Intel’s market-defining 3-D Tri-Gate transistor technology.

The company claims it will shatter system benchmarks for flow processor performance, power and cost in network and security applications.

“Access to the Intel Custom Foundry is a key differentiator for Netronome and enables them to take advantage of the industry-leading performance and power efficiency of Intel's 22nm 3-D Tri-Gate technology,” said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at The Linley Group.

Intel is providing significant benefits in several key areas to Netronome and its customers such as providing an unprecedented combination of improved performance and energy efficiency; reducing development costs and time to market, while increasing product functionality; and cost-effectively delivering the industry’s highest product quality through advanced Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT) and Design for Reliability (DFR) methodologies.

Intel’s global footprint, spanning multiple foundries and geographies worldwide, will also ensure an uninterrupted supply of Netronome products.

“Intel’s 3-D Tri-Gate transistor technology and 22nm manufacturing process provides significant benefits over legacy planar designs,” said Jim Finnegan, senior vice president of engineering at Netronome. “As a result, our next generation flow processors will be several generations ahead of other communications processors, allowing Netronome to deliver up to 10-times the performance with more than triple the energy efficiency.”

Netronome was in the news last month for announcing the availability of a major upgrade to its Network Flow Management (NFM) software framework including new application kits for next-generation firewalls (NGFW), IPsec, intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and SSL inspection. 

Netronome's NFM provides a comprehensive suite of production-ready reference software for the NFP-3240 network flow processors (NFP) that accelerates a wide variety of cyber security applications to industry leading throughputs.