Cavium Disrupts TCAM Market With Ultra Low Power NEURON Search(TM) Processor Family

SAN JOSE, CA, Aug 02 (MARKET WIRE) --
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products
that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and
the digital home, today announced its new game-changing NEURON Search(TM)
Processor family targeted at a wide range of high performance, L2-L4
Network Search applications in Enterprise and Service Provider
Infrastructure equipment. This new family includes the NEURON Search(TM)
and NEURONMAX Search(TM) product lines with support for both IPv4 and
IPv6 rules and delivers 100 million to over 1.6 billion searches per
second with guaranteed low latency. The NEURON Search family delivers up
to 4x the capacity per chip enabling the replacement of four existing
state-of-the-art 40 Mbit TCAMs, while the NEURONMAX Search family enables
virtually unlimited expansion at less than half the power consumption
while dramatically slashing the cost, making them ideal for a wide range
of Enterprise, Data Center and Wired/Wireless Service Provider
applications.

Discrete high-performance Search Processors and TCAMs are typically used
for layer 2 to layer 4 lookups in higher-end Edge and Core Equipment
where packet lookup requirements are greater than 50 million searches per
second. Two main trends in the networking and communication market are
fueling the increased need for higher performance search capabilities.
First, the transition from IPv4 addresses to the longer and much more
complex IPv6 addresses. Second, the sheer explosion of traffic created by
new mobile and social applications is driving 100Gbps port rates and also
driving high-capacity line cards. According to the Cisco Visual
Networking Index (VNI), by the end of 2015, annual global IP traffic will
increase four-fold from 2010, video traffic will increase 32-fold and
mobile traffic will increase 26-fold. The Linley Group forecasts that
these drivers will push the market for search processor silicon to
greater than $550 million in 2015.

Expensive, power hungry legacy TCAMs and low performance algorithmic
search processors until now have slowed the potential wider adoption of
search technology. Cavium researchers took a completely different
approach and developed breakthrough search technology using a range of
mathematical and neural pattern recognition concepts that remove many of
the critical constraints. Additionally, Cavium search technology sets the
bar for silicon efficiency, improving up to 2x the number of rules that
can be stored per unit area, leading to lower power and cost. This new
cost power metric will drive wider adoption of search technology.

"Cavium is bringing breakthrough search technology to networking OEMs,"
said Jag Bolaria, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "Compared with
TCAMs currently in production, the NEURON Search Processor quadruples the
capacity while the NEURONMAX Search family extends the capacity further.
System designers will appreciate the lower power of these devices as well
as having another established supplier of search processors."

NEURON Search Processor Family Overview

The NEURON Search Processor family consists of two silicon product lines
that connect to a wide range of NPUs/ASICs including Cavium's OCTEON II
processors using a variety of serial and parallel IO interfaces such as
the industry standard high bandwidth Interlaken/LA interface.

-- The NEURON Search Processor CNSP1XXX product line offers 100 million
to 1.6 billion searches per second with enough capacity and guaranteed
low latency in a single chip to replace four of the highest density 40
Mb TCAM parts available in the market today. This product line is
targeted at Enterprise, Data Center & Service Provider
Infrastructure applications.

-- The NEURONMAX Search Processor CNSP2XXX product line enables seamless
expansion of rule capacity through external DDR3 memory to 20x of the
NEURON Search Processor family while retaining footprint
compatibility, and is ideal for applications in target markets that
require further future-proofing for a very large number of table
entries.

Tremendous flexibility has been provided in storing rules and
specifying rule table formats and a simple, easy to use SDK is provided
for configuration, real-time updates and management. The ease-of-use of
this utility is in sharp contrast to the complex management software
needed for TCAMs today and will help OEMs in rapidly integrating these
products into their product lines. The software interface for all product
families is identical thereby providing a highly scalable and software
compatible solution.

Availability
Hardware design collateral including
data sheet, pin out and Software Development Kit (SDK) are available now.
SDK includes compiler, simulator and real-time rule update manager. Both
the NEURON Search and NEURONMAX Search product lines will be available in
Q1 2012. Please contact your Cavium sales representative for additional
details.

About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking,
communications, and the digital home. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in performance from
100 Mbps to 40+ Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in
enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer, access and service provider
equipment. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that
provide a wide range of application software, operating systems, tool
support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal offices
are in San Jose, CA with design team locations in California,
Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please
visit: http://www.cavium.com.

Note on Forward-Looking Statements
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implied by such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to
the rate of new design wins, acceptance by customers of our new product
introductions, our new products meeting specifications without defects or
failures, pricing pressures, general economic conditions, manufacturing
difficulties, and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in
our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange
Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact
Cavium's business are set forth in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form
10K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28,
2011. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on
information available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their
entirety by this cautionary statement, and we assume no obligation to
revise or update these forward-looking statements.

Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Tel: (408) 943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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