RMI, a provider of processors for communication and media applications, has announced a ‘design and performance’ enhancement across its multi-core, multi-threaded XLR and XLS processor families. The company claimed that this enhancement allows the processor families to achieve processing speeds up to 1.5GHz, for enterprise and infrastructure applications.
According to the company, the multi-threaded octalcore XLR732 and quad-core XLS processor families have added an additional 25% of performance capability for customers in the baseband, security and L4-L7 networking sectors.
The XLR732 processor is claimed to consist of XLR processor cores enabling up to 32 threads, or virtual CPUs (vCPUs), in a single chip. The XLR’s MIPS64 compatible cores implement four-way multithreading – combined with a multilevel hierarchy of caches, autonomous accelerators, and point-to-point interconnects – for data and message transfers.
Nazar Zaidi, senior vice president of engineering at RMI, said: “We continue to drive the capabilities that the market demands for multi-core processors and this performance increase is indicative of our success.”
The company said that the XLS processor family is optimised for applications such as Wireless Base Stations; also, it enables integrated control plane, data plane, and security processing in a single System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC) product.
The XLR732 and the XLS416/616 processors are expected to arrive in Q3 2009 with full-production starting in Q4 2009.
