Microsemi Corporation announced the availability of its Switchtec PCIe Gen 4 development platform. Microsemi’s new development platform enables customers to immediately begin PCIe Gen 4 system hardware designs based on the company’s PCIe Gen 4 switch and develop firmware using its Switchtec software development kit (SDK). PCIe Gen 4 represents an exciting new advancement in input/output […]
Data centers
Chipsets speed development of data center SSD projects
Marvell today announced that it is launching innovative NVM Express (NVMe)-based chipset solutions that will accelerate the time to market for application-optimized data center SSD implementations. These new, highly-versatile building blocks can optimally address current and emerging workload storage requirements, spanning capacity, latency, performance, power and cost, to enable tailored SSD solutions for specific cloud and […]
Directly modulated laser diodes handle 25 Gbps rates for 4.9G and 5G LTE base stations
Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced the RV2X6376A Series of directly modulated laser (DML) diodes. The DML diodes deliver 25 Gbps x four wavelengths as the light source in 100 Gbps optical transceivers that enable high-speed communications inside 4.9G and 5G LTE base stations, and between data center routers and servers. The RV2X6376A Series are the […]
First 16-port 50GbE PHY transceiver
Marvell announced the launch of the 88X7120 50GbE PHY transceiver, the latest offering in its Alaska C family of high-speed Ethernet physical layer (PHY) transceivers, designed to improve bandwidth and performance in the data center. The new transceiver is purpose-built to address the transition in hyperscale data centers from 25GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) and 100GbE to 50GbE, 200GbE and […]
RZ/N1 evaluation kit targets remote IO, comms, networked drive designs
Ethernet-based industrial network development requires system manufacturers to select external components, contact various software providers to select the proper protocol stack, and set up the development environment. All these steps make it difficult for system manufacturers to quick start Ethernet-based industry network developments, delaying time-to-market of their application. The new RZ/N1L Solution Kit announced by […]
Embedded processors deliver high GPU and per-dollar performance for core to the edge
AMD introduced two new product families – the AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 processor and AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 processor – to enter a new age for high-performance embedded processors. AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 brings the power of “Zen” to a variety of new markets including networking, storage and edge computing devices, while AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 […]
STM32 proto boards connect to Cloud services via 2G/3G, LTE Cat M1/NB1 networks
STMicroelectronics has specially configured two STM32 Discovery Packs for fast connections of IoT devices to Cloud services over 2G/3G or LTE Cat M1/NB1 networks. Each pack contains an STM32L496 Discovery board and STMod+ Cellular expansion board featuring a Quectel cellular modem. The software provided includes the Espruino embedded JavaScript engine ported to the STM32L496 ultra-low-power […]
SoC delivers data center processor architecture in 14nm
Designed to meet the high-performance requirements of a large variety of high-demand applications and services from the data center core to the edge, the new Intel Xeon D-2100 processor brings the advanced intelligence of the Xeon Scalable processor architecture into an optimized, dense, lower-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) form factor for environments constrained by space and power. […]
SSD SoC enters volume production for high-end client, entry-level enterprise storage
Sonics, Inc. announced that its Chinese customer, Starblaze Technology, has reached volume production in TSMC’s 28HPC process technology with the STAR1000 solid-state storage device (SSD) controller system-on-chip (SoC). Starblaze Technology used Sonics’ flagship SonicsGN NoC as the integration fabric for more than 60 cores in the design. STAR1000 is a high-end client and entry-level enterprise storage SSD controller designed to […]
Arm-based 10-nm server processors host up to 48 64-bit, single-thread cores
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. announced commercial shipment of the world’s first and only 10-nanometer server processor series: the Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor family. The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor family is the first high-performance Arm-based processor series designed to offer groundbreaking throughput performance for cloud workloads running in today’s datacenters. Purpose built for cloud, the Qualcomm Centriq […]