February 2014 – At the RSA 2014 conference in San Francisco, the theme of security had an underlying theme of mobile devices/thin clients connected to high speed and cloud based networks. These networks have been updated to the latest generation multicore servers which have enhanced throughput. As a result the edge of network devices in…
While at the OTT conference, we talked with Cavium about their latest wireless interfaces and media processors. The company focuses on high-performance processors and interfaces. They now have a reference design featuring their media processor that should cost less than $20 for the total BoM. The reference design allows mobile devices with WiFi to connect…
August 8, 2011, Hot Chips 23, Stanford, CA—Richard Kessler described a MIPS-based multi-core processor that raises the bar for performance/$/Watt. This chip is focused on networking and wireless server functions and has an integrated security engine for cryptographic operation acceleration. It is designed to take advantage of packet and flow parallelism and exhibits linear performance…