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Cisco Introduces World's Most Advanced Networking Semiconductor: Cisco QuantumFlow Processor
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SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - February 25, 2008) - Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) today introduced the
Cisco QuantumFlow Processor, the most advanced piece of networking silicon
in the world and 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, making it uniquely geared for today's
network environments and several generations beyond what is currently
available in network processors.
The Cisco QuantumFlow Processor was designed by a team of more than 100
Cisco engineers and has led to more than 40 patent submissions. Many of the
same 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. Such density puts it in the tier of some of the most advanced
processors developed by leading semiconductor companies.
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