Cavium's Project Thunder Chips to Power Next Generation of Cloud Data Centers

Provider of highly integrated semiconductor processors, Cavium, recently announced plans to deliver a family of highly integrated, multi-core SoC (System on Chip) processors to next generation cloud and data center markets. These processors will incorporate highly optimized, full custom cores based entirely on 64-bit ARMv8 instruction set architecture (ISA).

Called the Project Thunder Initiative, this plan will involve lead tier-1 vendors and ecosystem partners to deliver Project Thunder processors, along with the Octeon and Nitrox processor families, to next generation cloud data centers, expanding Cavium's footprint in the market.

The move to the cloud is both swift and all encompassing, incorporating enterprise, mobile, consumer applications and storage. This rapid growth across multiple industries will require next generation architecture to support it; while mobile cloud applications require real-time provisioning to support peak loads, enterprise cloud use requires multitenancy and scalable environments, along with strong security. As such, data centers must consolidate workloads, virtualize networks and implement application-optimized servers and storage — all with a lower power and cost envelope.

Project Thunder aims to address this requirement by building upon Cavium's extensive experience delivering multicore SoC processors with excellent performance, scalability and integration based on both the MIPS and ARM (News - Alert) architectures.

"The cloud and datacenter market is going through a discontinuity with rapidly changing requirements driving a convergence of computing, networking and security," said Syed Ali (News - Alert), president and CEO at Cavium. "Cavium's core competencies and IP are uniquely matched to deliver a compelling value proposition to the cloud and datacenter."

Cavium also recently forwarded its position in the mobile infrastructure market by delivering its Octeon Fusion platform to Korean mobile service provider SK Telecom, powering operator's 4G/LTE (News - Alert) small cell deployment. This collaboration between the two companies builds on the initial development phase of the 4G/LTE deployment project.

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