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LSI touts ARM-based chips to boost networks, save power |
April 15, 2013
Chipmaker LSI is hoping to improve networking performance and flexibility with its ARM-based Axxia 4500 processor family, announced Monday.
ARM-based processors are best known for powering smartphones and tablets. But the British company's technology will also be used in next-generation switches and routers for enterprises and data centers, if LSI is successful.
The Axxia 4500 processor family are based on up to four ARM Cortex-A15 cores and use ARM's new CoreLink CCN-504 interconnect, which can prioritize time-sensitive traffic and offers up to one terabit of usable system bandwidth per second, according to ARM. The Cortex-A15 is ARM's most powerful processor to date, and is used in products like the Nexus 10 tablet from Google and Samsung Electronics and the Galaxy S4.
LSI's Axxia processors have been based on PowerPC processors in the past, but the move to ARM will bring better performance while keeping power consumption in check, according to LSI.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2034658/armbased-chips-to-improve-network-performance-and-keep-power-use-in-check.html#tk.rss_all
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