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Cisco introduces fully integrated networking semiconductor
By siliconindia
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Friday, 07 March 2008, 01:29 IST
Mumbai: Cisco has introduced the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor, the industry's first fully integrated and programmable networking chipset. More than half a decade in the making, the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor consists of 40 cores on a single chip and can perform up to 160 simultaneous processes.
The chipset was designed by a team of more than 100 Cisco engineers and has led to more than 40 patent submissions. Many of the engineers who developed the Cisco Silicon Packet Processor (SPP) for the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS-1), which debuted in 2004, also worked on the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor.
Continued advancements in technology, design and expertise enabled the team to increase the transistor density on the chip from a then networking-industry, leading 185 million on the Cisco SPP to more than 800 million on the Cisco QuantumFlow processor.
