ThunderX2
Today Marvell is announcing the release of its new next-generation OCTEON Fusion CNF95XX baseband processors, as well as introducing a new generation of OCTEON TX2 infrastructure processors. Together, the two products aim at enabling 5G infrastructure equipment providers in a synergistic fashion, greatly improving upon the capabilities of Marvell’s product stack. OCTEON Fusion CNF95XX: A 5G Baseband Processor We don’t tend to cover such announcements very often, so first things first is to define what a baseband processor actually is. 5G’s O-RAN (Open RAN or Open Radio Access Network) architecture is defined at different layers representing different functions of the protocol stack. The stack is divided into 3 layers, with the first layer being the physical layer (PHY), essentially handling encoding, modulation and RF processing related to...
GIGABYTE's Cavium ThunderX2 Systems: 1U R181-T90 and 2U R281-T91
GIGABYTE's server division has started sales of its first servers based on Cavium’s ThunderX2 processors with up to 32 cores. Being among the primary companies to begin selling machines...
7 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2018Assessing Cavium's ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized At Last
A little less than 2 years ago, we investigated the first Arm server SoC that had a chance to compete with midrange Xeon E5s: the Cavium ThunderX. The SoC...
98 by Johan De Gelas on 5/23/2018