Marvell Technology, Inc, a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, is enabling networking equipment and firewall manufacturers achieve breakthrough levels of performance and efficiency with two new OCTEON 10 data processing units (DPUs), the OCTEON 10 CN102 and OCTEON 10 CN103.
The 5nm OCTEON CN102 and CN103, broadly available to OEMs for product design and pilot production, are optimized for data and control plane applications in routers, firewalls, 5G small cells, SD-WAN appliances, and control plane applications in top-of-rack switches and line card controllers. Several of the world’s largest networking equipment manufacturers have already incorporated the OCTEON 10 CN102 into a number of product designs.
Containing up to eight Arm® Neoverse™ N2 cores, OCTEON 10 CN102 and CN103 deliver 3x the performance of Marvell current DPU solutions for devices while reducing power consumption by 50% to 25 watts1. Achieving SPEC CPU® (2017) integer rate (SPECint®) scores of 36.5, OCTEON 10 CN102 and CN103 are able to deliver nearly 1.5 SPECint points per watt2. The chips can serve as an offload DPU for host processors or as the primary processor in devices; advanced performance per watt also enables OEMs to design fanless systems to simplify systems and further reduce cost, maintenance and power consumption.
Announced in 2021, the OCTEON 10 DPU platform addresses the growing requirements for network, storage and security processing among cloud service providers, telecommunications carriers, enterprises, and other end users. OCTEON 10 DPUs share a common foundation of 5nm process technology, Arm Neoverse N2 processors, hardware accelerators, industry-leading I/O, and DDR5 support, among other technologies. Marvell varies the number of CPU cores, the optimal data paths, the type and number of hardware accelerators and other technologies to create different models optimized for specific applications, customer segments and performance requirements. OCTEON 10 CN102, for instance, is designed with a 10G SerDes to better suit entry-level equipment while CN103 contains a 56G SerDes for higher throughput.
Other OCTEON 10 DPUs include OCTEON 10 CN106 designed for cloud, enterprise and baseband for 5G wireless networks. It contains artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) cores that analyze operational data to enhance system performance and up to 24 Arm Neoverse N2 server processor cores. OCTEON 10 CN106 was also the industry’s first DPU to feature inline AI/ML acceleration, an integrated 1-terabit switch and vector packet processing (VPP) hardware accelerators3.
SOURCE: PRNewswire