Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: In-Stat
Published: July 2005
Product Code: R97-2076Description Multicore processors are all the rage. News related to multicore processors is currently the focus of heavy press coverage and a topic of great interest in the analyst community.
The latest semiconductor processes have provided chip designers with sufficient transistors to build practical multicore processors. The increasing functionality required for new embedded processors led to increasing performance per die density. Limits to power density and heat, and the increased leakage currents in below-90nm processors led to this new performance paradigm based on thread-level parallelism.
This report examines the current technology and the prevailing product offerings that will be in production soon. These include Broadcom SiByte, Cavium Networks Octeon, Freescale MPC8641/D, PMC-Sierra RM11200, and RMI XLR.Table of Contents Table
of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Methodology
- Overview
- Modern Embedded
Applications
- Server Processors
- PC Processors
- Multicore Design
Issues
- Program Support
for Multiple Cores
- Multicore Communication
Processors Offerings
- Broadcom SiByte
- Coherent
Caches and Memory
- Cavium Networks
Octeon
- Return
of the Marlboro Men
- Optimized
for Data-Plane Processing
- CPU Cores
Have Coherent Caches
- Custom
Hardware Boosts Performance
- Higher
Integration Was Inevitable
- Freescale MPC8641/D
- PMC-Sierra
RM11200
- RMI XLR
- Company
Overview
- Processor
Development
- Rings Are
the Rage
- Networking
Needs Fast I/O
- Security
- Opening
New Markets
- The Scorecard
So Far
- Market Opportunity
- Routers
- Branch
Office Routers
- Enterprise
Routers
- Service
Provider Routers
- MultiService
WAN Switches
- DSLAMs
- Media Gateways
- The Best Application
for Multicore…It Depends
List
of Tables
- Table 1. Comparison
of multicore embedded processors
- Table 2. The SiByte
Family
- Table 3. Octeon
processor comparison
- Table 4. A summary
of the key features of the XLR processor cores
- Table 5. The XLR
family
- Table 6. Comparison
of multicore embedded processors
- Table 7. Branch
Office Router Unit and End-Use Sales Forecast 2004-2008
- Table 8. Forecast
of Worldwide Service Provider Edge Router Unit Shipments and Sales Revenues:
2005-2009
- Table 9. Forecast
of Worldwide Service Provider Core Router Unit Shipments and Sales Revenues:
2005-2009
- Table 10. Forecast
of Worldwide Total MultiService Switch Sales: 2005-2009 (US$ in Millions,
Manufacturer Sales)
- Table 11. Forecast
of Worldwide DSLAM Port Shipments and Revenues: 2004-2009 (Port Shipments
in Thousands, Revenues in US$ Millions)
- Table 12. Total
Media Gateway Port Forecast 2005-2009 (in Thousands)
- Table 13. Total
Softswitch and Media Gateway Forecast 2005-2009 (in $ Thousands)
List
of Figures
- Figure 1. On-chip
interconnect strategies
- Figure 2. Broadcom
BCM12xx/BCM14xx block diagram
- Figure 3. Block
diagram of an Octeon processor
- Figure 4. Freescale
MPC8641D block diagram
- Figure 5. PMC-Sierra
RM11200 block diagram
- Figure 6. The XLR
die
- Figure 7. Memory
Distributed Interconnect ring
- Figure 8. The XLR
processor block diagram
- Figure 9. The packet
preprocessor
- Figure 10. The
security coprocessor in the XLR processor
- Figure 11. Enterprise
Router Unit and End-Use Sales Forecast 2004-2008
- Figure 12. Application
Area Breakout of 2004 MultiService Switch Sales Revenues
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