Freescale Semiconductor, a provider of embedded communications processors for networking equipment, has unveiled its next-generation QorIQ multicore platform built on 28-nm technology.
The advanced multiprocessing (AMP) series incorporates up to 24 virtual cores, advanced acceleration engines and power management, the company said.
The new QorIQ AMP series delivers up to 4x the performance of Freescale’s previous-generation eight-core QorIQ P4080 device.
Freescale QorIQ AMP series comes equipped with 64-bit Power Architecture e6500 core running at up to 2.5 GHz. The e6500 incorporates an enhanced version of AltiVec vector processing unit.
A broad array of next-generation control and data plane processors scaling from cost-effective, ultra-low-power single-core products, up to highly advanced SoCs are included in the new AMP series.
The AMP series’ compression/decompression technology provides 20 Gbps of performance, and a new SEC 5.0 crypto accelerator offloads protocol processing, including LTE, IPSec, and SSL, at up to 40 Gbps.
The AMP series also incorporates CoreNet interconnect fabric, a cache-coherent memory hierarchy, hardware-based virtualisation and dynamic on-chip debug technology that provides deep visibility into complex software processes, the company said.
Freescale Networking & Multimedia Group senior vice president and general manager Lisa Su said their new QorIQ AMP series delivers the next wave of innovation for networking OEMs through leveraging Freescale’s R&D strength, wealth of IP, and signature intelligent integration.
Freescale said it plans to make the next-generation QorIQ multicore device in early 2012.
