improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . august 2012 this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . august 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message cavium type public nasdaq cavm industry processors and boards founded 2001 headquarters san jose california united states key people syed b. ali president & ceo ; m. raghib hussain founder & coo formerly cto number of employees 850 1 website cavium.com cavium is a fabless semiconductor company based in san jose california specializing in arm based and mips based network video and security processors and socs . 2 cavium offers processor and board level products targeting routers switches appliances storage and servers . the company went public in may 2007 with about 175 employees . as of 2011 following numerous acquisitions it had about 850 employees worldwide of whom about 250 were located at company headquarters in san jose . cavium products have been designed in by the world s leading networking wireless storage and security vendors . cavium s design wins are at companies such as alcatel lucent aruba networks cisco citrix f5 networks furukawa electric ge fanuc ibm juniper motorola ecc netgear nokia radisys sofaware sonicwall and qualcomm . cavium has received numerous awards recognizing the product line and company performance including 2014 deloitte technology fast 500 2013 most respected public semiconductor company etc. 1 contents 1 products 1.1 cnmips microarchitecture 1.2 cnmips ii microarchitecture 1.3 cnmips iii microarchitecture 1.4 octeon socs 1.5 octeon plus socs 1.6 octeon ii socs 1.7 octeon iii socs 1.8 thunderx socs 2 history 2.1 name change 2.2 acquisitions 3 references 4 external links products edit cnmips microarchitecture edit the cnmips microarchitecture implements the mips64 instruction set . cnmips ii microarchitecture edit cnmips iii microarchitecture edit octeon socs edit 3 model launch fab nm cnmips i cores notes core clock mhz l2 cache kb cn3005 2002 90 1 300 500 64 cn3010 1 128 cn3110 1 256 cn3120 2 256 cn3630 4 400 600 512 cn3830 4 1024 cn3840 8 1024 cn3850 12 1024 cn3860 16 1024 octeon plus socs edit 4 model launch fab nm cnmips i cores notes core clock mhz l2 cache kb cn5010 90 1 300 700 128 cn5020 2 128 cn5220 2 500 800 512 cn5230 4 512 cn5430 4 500 700 1024 cn5434 6 1024 cn5530 4 1024 cn5534 6 1024 cn5640 8 600 800 2048 cn5645 10 2048 cn5650 12 2048 cn5740 8 2048 cn5745 10 2048 cn5750 12 2048 cn5830 4 2048 cn5840 8 2048 cn5850 12 2048 cn5860 16 2048 octeon ii socs edit 5 model launch fab nm cnmips ii cores notes core clock mhz l2 cache kb cn6010 65 1 400 800 512 cn6020 2 512 cn6120 2 600 1200 1024 cn6130 4 1024 cn6220 2 800 1000 1024 cn6230 4 1024 cn6320 2 800 1500 2048 cn6330 4 2048 cn6335 6 2048 cn6635 6 2048 cn6645 10 2048 cn6740 8 4096 cn6760 16 4096 cn6860 16 800 1400 4096 cn6870 24 4096 cn6880 32 4096 octeon iii socs edit 6 7 model launch fab nm cnmips iii cores notes core clock mhz l2 cache kb cn7010 28 1 800 1200 512 cn7020 2 512 cn7120 2 800 1600 512 cn7125 3 512 cn7130 4 512 cn7760 16 1600 2500 8192 cn7770 24 8192 cn7870 24 16384 cn7880 32 16384 cn7890 48 16384 thunderx socs edit 8 model launch fab nm armv8 a cores notes core clock mhz cn87xx xx 2014 28 8 16 up to 2500 cn88xx xx 2014 24 48 up to 2500 comparison of armv8 a cores history edit name change edit on june 17 2011 cavium networks inc. changed their name to cavium inc. 9 acquisitions edit date acquired company historical product line august 2008 star semiconductor arm based systems on chip processors 10 december 2008 w & w communications video compression software and hardware 11 december 2009 montavista software carrier grade linux compliant linux & embedded systems 12 january 2011 13 celestial semiconductor socs for digital media applications including satellite cable and internet tv 14 february 2011 wavesat telecommunications semiconductor solutions for carrier and mobile device manufacturers 15 july 2014 xpliant inc. switching and sdn specialist 16 june 2016 qlogic inc. ethernet and storage specialist 17 references edit a b cavium networks inc. returns to san jose . silicon valley business news . 8 july 2011 . retrieved 2015 01 08 . new york times company profile for cavium inc. cavium.com cavium octeon socs product table cavium.com cavium octeon plus socs product table cavium.com cavium octeon ii socs product table cavium.com cavium octeon iii socs product table cavium.com cavium octeon iii socs product cn77xx table cavium.com thunderx product page http biz.yahoo.com e 110620 cavm8 k.html dead link company press release cavium networks completes acquisition of taiwan based star semiconductor company press release cavium networks completes acquisition of w & w communications company press release cavium networks completes acquisition of montavista software mcgrath dylan 31 january 2011 . cavium buys chinese fabless chip firm . ee times . retrieved 17 february 2011 . company overview . celestial semiconductor . archived from the original on 2011 03 09 . retrieved 17 february 2011 . wavesat crunchbase . www.crunchbase.com . retrieved 2016 07 10 . company press release cavium to acquire switching and sdn specialist xpliant to accelerate deployment of software defined networks company press release cavium to acquire qlogic opportunity to drive significant growth at scale in data center and storage markets external links edit cavium website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cavium & oldid 742337645 categories electronics companies of the united statesnetworking companies of the united statescompanies listed on nasdaqcompanies based 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