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Netronome ships its X86-compatible multicore network flow engine

March 17th, 2010 · No Comments




Netronome is now shipping its NFP-3240 network flow processor, a follow-on to Intel’s IXP28XX line of network processors, specifically designed for tight coupling with general purpose X-86-based multicore Intel processors to accelerate network, security and content performance up to 40 and 100 Gbps.

According to Niel Viljoen, founder and CEO of Netronome, aAt the heart of the NFP-3240 is a powerful array of 40 1.4GHz microengine RISC processors. Each microengine core supports eight simultaneous computing threads, enabling the NFP-3240 to deliver 56 billion instructions per second (BIPS).

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