Blog Coverage: GIGABYTE Technology Leverages Cavium’s Thunder X2 Processor Family; Announces Expansion of ARM Server Portfolio

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LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / May 31, 2017 / Active Wall St. blog coverage looks at the headline from Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) as the Company, a leading provider of semiconductor products, and GIGABYTE Technology, a leading producer of high-performance server hardware, announced on May 29, 2017, the availability of high-performance ARM service platforms on the basis of Cavium’s second generation 64-bit ARMv8 Thunder X2 product family. Register with us now for your free membership and blog access at:

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The Thunder X2 Product Family

The Thunder X2 product family is Cavium’s second generation 64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoCC for Datacenter, Cloud, and High-Performance Computing applications. The family brings in the integration of fully out-of-order high-performance custom cores supporting dual and single socket configurations. The Thunder X2 is optimized to drive high computational performance while delivering exceptional memory bandwidth and memory capacity. The new line of Thunder X2 processors includes multiple workloads optimized SKUs for both scales up and scale out applications, and is fully compliant with ARMv8-A architecture specifications as well as ARM’s SBSA and SBBR standards.

The product family is well-equipped to address the high compute demands of the next generation data center and cloud infrastructure, according to the Company. Through the use of Cavium Thunder X2 class processors, GIGABYTE will be able to offer a wide array of high-performance, high volume 1U, and 2U systems, in single and dual socket configurations, and reference platforms that fully harness core differentiators such as integrated SATA port integration, high memory bandwidth, and capacity along with multiple PCIe Gen3 X 16 ports.

GIGABYTE Expansion Prospects

Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE has been regarded as an innovative and trusted motherboard leader globally. The Company is well-recognized for its award-winning product portfolio and holds a position as the leader in design and innovation. The Company has a broad offering commercially available ARM-based server solutions, and continues to demonstrate engineering expertise through system level integration which in turn helps to manage intensive computer I/O, large memory configurations, and power optimization. The Company is uniquely positioned owing to its worldwide presence to accelerate the adoption and deployment of Thunder X2 based systems into the cloud and hyper-scale data center applications.

GIGABYTE has announced multiple platforms optimized to utilize the ThunderX2 SoC, where the R181 (1U) series utilizes a single socket ATX form factor motherboard with multiple PCIe x 16 Gen3 and SATA connectors for expansion modules with high memory capacity. R181 is an ideal solution for applications that require cost-effective high performance compute platforms.

Cavium Growth Prospects

Cavium is a firm with a diverse portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity, and baseband processing. On May 29, 2017, the Company announced that Ingrasys, a Foxconn Technology Group subsidiary, which is the world’s largest manufacturer of server and storage platforms, has announced the sampling of new rack mount server platforms based on Cavium’s second generation 64-bit ARMv8 Thunder X2 product family.

On March 08, 2017, Cavium announced that they are collaborating with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) on evaluating and enabling a variety of cloud workloads running on Cavium’s flagship offering, ThunderX2 ARMv8-A Data Center processor for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Later on April 27, 2017, the Company announced an agreement with Online, a wholly-owned subsidiary of French Technology Company Iliad Group, under which Online would initiate the commercial development of server platforms based on Cavium’s Thunder X workload optimized processors as a part of their Scaleway cloud service offering.

Stock Performance

On Tuesday, May 30, 2017, the stock closed the trading session at $74.07, slightly down 0.19% from its previous closing price of $74.21. A total volume of 359.42 thousand shares have exchanged hands. Cavium’s stock price soared 13.07% in the last three months, 34.67% in the past six months, and 52.06% in the previous twelve months. Furthermore, on a year to date basis, the stock surged 18.63%. The stock currently has a market cap of $5.01 billion.

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