Announced in September 2014, just before Tomahawk.
Founder Guy Hutchison talked about chip memory at the time of introduction.
Now that products have started to flow, the memory size has been revealed: 24 MB. At the end of 2017 Marvell and Cavium agreed to a $6B purchase that should close sometime in 2018.
On March 20 2018 Cavium introduced a trace program for their SOC switch products. The acquision closed on July 6, 2018. At the end of August 2018 Marvell said they would be shuttering Cavium's Xpliant switch chip. The SONiC image has stopped supporting cavium asic in 2017/09. Because Marvell aborted this product line. |