Cavium deliver big 54 cores 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX2 Soc

Two years later after their first 64-bit ARM Server SoCs with the 48-core ThunderX, ThunderX2 is introduced as world biger ARM chip with 54 64-bit ARM cores @ up to 3.0 GHz.New cavium chip is 2x to 3x faster than ThunderX 1 and is manifactuerd in 14nm FinFet process.

Second generation ThunderX2 product family provides the best in class 64-bit ARMv8 Data Center & Cloud Processors, offering unprecedented level of integration and industry leading SoC performance. With high performance custom fully out-of-order (OOO) cores, single and dual socket configurations, very high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators, fully virtualized core and IO, scalable Ethernet fabric and feature rich I/O's supporting 25Gbps. The ThunderX2 family includes multiple Workload Optimized SKUs that enable servers and appliances that are optimized for compute, storage, network and secure compute workloads in the cloud. The ThunderX2 processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA.

Technical characteristics of Cavium Thunder X2 :

• ARM based server class SoC that scales up to 54 cores with up to 3.0 GHz core frequency
• ARM based SoC to be fully cache coherent across dual sockets using Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI™)
• The largest integrated I/O capacity with 100s of Gigabits of I/O bandwidth using integrated 25Gbps SerDes
• Six DDR4 72 bit memory controllers capable of supporting 3200 MHz memories with 1+TB of memory in a dual socket configuration
• Hundreds of integrated hardware accelerators for security, storage, networking and virtualization applications
• Fabric for interconnectivity of nodes supporting SLA enforcements with awareness and policy enforcement for virtual networks
• Virtualization everywhere with Cavium virtSOC ™ technology – Full system level low latency virtualization solution from core to I/O
• Support for PCIe Gen3 x16 along with integrated 10/25/40/50/100GbE and SATAv3 ports

More details can be found on Cavium ThunderX2 home page