Cavium - Semiconductor Solutions and Server Innovation

• Hundreds of integrated hardware accelerators for security, storage, networking and virtualization applications.
• Standard based low latency Ethernet fabric interconnecting thousands of ThunderX nodes in 2D and 3D configurations and enabling fabric monitoring and SLA enforcements with awareness and policy enforcement for virtualized networks.
• Virtualization everywhere with Cavium virtSOC™ technology – Full system level low latency virtualization solution from core to I/O.
• Best-in-class performance per watt and performance per dollar for the target applications

ThunderX Family Details:
With ThunderX, Cavium will be delivering the most comprehensive family of integrated ARMv8 SoC products in the industry and for the first time data center and cloud operators can truly optimize their deployments and workloads from the silicon all the way to the application.

• ThunderX_CP™: Up to 48 highly efficient cores along with integrated vSoC, multiple 10/40 GbE and high memory bandwidth. This family is optimized for private and public cloud web servers and content delivery, web caching and social media data analytics workloads. 

• ThunderX_ST™: Up to 48 highly efficient cores along with integrated vSoC, multiple SATAv3 controllers, 10/40 GbE & PCIe Gen3 ports, high memory bandwidth, dual socket coherency, and scalable fabric for east-west as well as north-south traffic connectivity. This family includes hardware accelerators for data protection/ integrity/security, user to user efficient data movement (RoCE) and compressed storage. This family is optimized for Hadoop, block & object storage, distributed file storage and hot/warm/cold storage type workloads.

• ThunderX_SC™: Up to 48 highly efficient cores along with integrated vSoC, 10/40 GbE connectivity, multiple PCIe Gen3 ports, high memory bandwidth, dual socket coherency. The hardware accelerators include Cavium’s industry leading 4th generation NITROX technology with acceleration for IPSec, SSL, Anti-virus, Anti-malware, firewall and DPI. This family is optimized for Secure Web frontend, security appliances and Cloud RAN type workloads. 

• ThunderX_NT™: Up to 48 highly efficient cores along with integrated vSoC, 10/40/100 GbE connectivity, multiple PCIe Gen3 ports, high memory bandwidth, dual socket coherency, and scalable fabric with feature rich capabilities for bandwidth provisioning , QoS, traffic Shaping and tunnel termination. The hardware accelerators include high packet throughput processing, network virtualization and data monitoring. This family is optimized for media servers, scale-out embedded application and NFV type workloads.

ThunderX Customer Reference Platforms: Cavium is enabling ThunderX family with two reference platforms (ThunderX 1K and ThunderX 2K), which are intended for eco-system partners to test and release with actual hardware, enabling customers to evaluate ThunderX performance and features based on their specific application. These reference platforms would also accelerate the development cycle for those customers, who are building their own platforms and developing their software stack deploying ThunderX. These reference platforms would overall accelerate the ARM server adoption in the cloud and data center infrastructure. 

ThunderX 1K reference platform is an ATX form factor single socket motherboard inside of a 1U chassis.

ThunderX 2K reference platform is a ½ SSI form factor sled inside of a 2U chassis. The 2U chassis can accommodate 4 of such sled and each of the sled being a dual socket design. 

ThunderX CN87XX Family
The CN87XX consists of 8-16 cores in single socket configuration with two DDR3/4 controllers, multiple 10GbE, SATAv3 and PCIe Gen3 interfaces. This family is cost and power optimized for entry level applications such as cold storage, distributed content delivery, dedicated hosting, distributed memory caching and embedded and control plane.

ThunderX family consists of two products named CN88xx and CN87xx. Summary of key capabilities are the following:

Features	CN88XX_X (Server)	CN87XX_X (Low End Server)
Cores	24-48	8-16
Core Frequency	Up to 2.5Ghz	Up to 2.5GHz
Dual Socket Configuration
Full Virtualization (virtSoC™)
Multiple PCIe Gen3
Multiple SATA 3
Multiple 10G/40GE
100G Connectivity
Multiple DDR3/4
Hardware Accelerators
Ethernet Fabric