Broadly available to OEMs, the Marvell®
OCTEON® 10 CN102 and CN103 triple the performance
of existing Marvell solutions
while cutting power by 50%
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Dec. 6, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), 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.
OCTEON 10 Fusion® CN105 features a lower
maximum number of server cores and adds additional hardware
accelerators and proprietary signal processing to optimize the chip
for the intense radio processing demands of massive MIMO and other
5G RAN tasks. Carriers4, equipment vendors, and other
semiconductor designers5 are collaborating with
Marvell on ways to incorporate
OCTEON technology into their platforms.
"The new OCTEON processors are a natural extension of the
Marvell compute strategy," said
Joseph Byrne, editor in chief of
TechInsights' The Microprocessor Report, which earlier this
year named OCTEON 10 the Best Embedded Processor for 2022.
"Specialized processors can increase overall performance while
holding down power and chip cost."
"The idea behind the Marvell OCTEON 10 DPU platform is that
every market and every customer segment deserve optimized
processors. With Moore's Law becoming more challenging, optimized
design methodologies will become the primary engine propelling
innovation in semiconductors," said Will
Chu, senior vice president, Compute and Custom Business Unit
at Marvell. "OCTEON 10 CN102 and
CN103 fulfill that vision by delivering technology normally
associated with hyperscale cloud data centers for accelerating
network, storage and security workloads to OEMs and enterprises in
a way that fits their stringent space, power and cost
requirements."
Key Features of OCTEON 10 CN102 and CN103
- 5nm process
- 64-bit Arm Neoverse N2 core
- High integration with 20 Ethernet media access control (MAC)
with MACsec support
- Inline IPsec engine to enable 50 Gbps IPsec with 50% of single
N2 core
- Hardware packet acceleration with VPP optimization
- DDR5 up to 5600MT/s
- PCIe 5.0 (CN103xx only)
- 56G SerDes (CN103xx only)
Availability
Sampling already, the Marvell OCTEON 10 CN102 and CN103 DPUs are
available in production quantities in Q4 of this year and Q1 of
2024, respectively.
About Marvell
To
deliver the data infrastructure technology that connects the world,
we're building solutions on the most powerful foundation: our
partnerships with our customers. Trusted by the world's leading
technology companies for over 25 years, we move, store, process and
secure the world's data with semiconductor solutions designed for
our customers' current needs and future ambitions. Through a
process of deep collaboration and transparency, we're ultimately
changing the way tomorrow's enterprise, cloud, automotive, and
carrier architectures transform—for the better.
- Compared to the OCTEON TX2 CN9130.
- Marvell testing.
- Marvell June 28, 2021.
- Carriers
- Semiconductor designers
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