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| Company type | Public |
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| Nasdaq: CAVM | |
| Industry | Processors and boards |
| Founded | 2000; 25 years ago (2000) |
| Founder | Raghib Hussain |
| Defunct | July 6, 2018 (2018-07-06) |
| Fate | Acquired byMarvell Technology Group |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Syed Ali (president &CEO) Raghib Hussain (COO) |
| Products | Microprocessors, boards |
Number of employees | 850[1] |
| Website | cavium.com at theWayback Machine (archived 2015-03-16) |
Cavium, Inc. was afablesssemiconductor company based inSan Jose, California,[2] specializing inARM-based andMIPS-based network, video and security processors andSoCs.[3] The company was co-founded in 2000[4][5][6] by Syed B. Ali and M. Raghib Hussain,[7] who were introduced to each other by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Cavium offers processor- and board-level products targetingrouters,switches,appliances,storage and servers.
The company went public in May 2007 with about 175 employees.[5] As of 2011, following numerous acquisitions, it had about 850 employees worldwide, of whom about 250 were located at company headquarters in San Jose.
Cavium was acquired byMarvell Technology Group on July 6, 2018.[8]
On June 17, 2011, Cavium Networks, Inc. changed their name to Cavium, Inc.[9]
| Date | Acquired company | Historical product line |
|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Star Semiconductor | ARM-based systems-on-chip processors[10] |
| December 2008 | W&W Communications | Video compression software and hardware[11] |
| December 2009 | MontaVista Software | Carrier Grade Linux compliantLinux &embedded systems[12] |
| January 2011[13] | Celestial Semiconductor | SoCs for digital media applications, including satellite, cable, and Internet TV[14] |
| February 2011 | Wavesat Telecommunications | Semiconductor solutions for carrier and mobile device manufacturers[citation needed] |
| July 2014 | Xpliant, Inc. | Switching and SDN Specialist[15] |
| June 2016 | QLogic, Inc. | Ethernet and Storage Specialist[16] |
In November 2017, Cavium's board of directors agreed to the company's purchase byMarvell Technology Group for $6 billion in cash and stock.[17] The merger was finalized on July 6, 2018.
Cavium began selling security processors in late 2001 with the Nitrox line. The processor had support for features likeIPsec,SSL,intrusion-detection services as well asVPNs. In 2004 the company launched the Octeon processor, which was using a 64-bitMIPS instruction set. At launch Cavium offered Octeon processors with two, four eight or sixteen cores.[18] In 2012, the company announced a 1-48 core MIPS-processor from the Octeon-line.[19] In 2014, the company announced the ThunderX, a 48 core server SoC based on theARMv8 architecture.[20][21] Cavium also offeredethernet switches that were produced in cooperation with Xpliant since 2014.[22]
