MACOM imayendetsa Bungwe la CPU la AppliedMicro la X-Gene

MACOM sabata yatha idalengeza kuti yalowa mu mgwirizano wogulitsa zinthu zokhudzana ndi microprocessor zomwe adagula ku AppliedMicro kupita ku Project Denver Holdings, kampani yatsopano yomwe idathandizidwa ndi kampani ya kasamalidwe ka katundu ya The Carlyle Group.

MACOM inatseka kupeza kwa AppliedMicro koyambirira kwa 2017. Kalelo, kampaniyo sinabise chinsinsi kuti imakonda kwambiri Applied Micro's MACsec ndi 100G mpaka 400G mayankho, koma osati mu X-Gene seva CPUs. Dongosolo la MACOM linali loti akhale mtsogoleri waukadaulo waukadaulo wolumikizana ndi datacenter ndikuyang'ana kwambiri ma netiweki owoneka bwino (analogi, mafotoko ndi ma PHY osakanikirana). Izi zati, bizinesi ya X-Gene sinali yoyenera kwenikweni kwa MACOM ndipo tsogolo la magawo a CPU silinadziwike.

The X-Gene 3 seva nsanja idawoneka yolonjeza pomwe idayambitsidwa Novembala yatha. CPU ili ndi njira za 32 za ARMv8 cores zomwe zikuyenda mpaka 3 GHz, yokhala ndi 32 MB ya L3 cache, makina asanu ndi atatu a kukumbukira kwa DDR4-2667 ndi ECC, ndi 42 PCIe 3.0. MACOM idayamba kuyesa X-Gene 3 pakati pazipani zomwe zidachitika mu Marichi ndipo Kontron adawonetseranso seva yochokera ku CPU ku MWC 2017. MACOM sinayambepo kutumiza zamalonda ku X-Gene 3 pano, komabe X-Gene 3 ndi omwe adalowa m'malo mwake adachita chidwi kwambiri kuti The Carlyle Gulu ikhazikitse bungwe latsopano lomwe lidzamalize X-Gene 3 ndikupitiliza kuyesetsa kuchita chitukuko.

Ngakhale MACOM kapena Carlyle sanafotokozere za ndalama pazachuma, koma MACOM ipeza gawo lochepa mu Project ya Denver Holdings. Ponena za izi, ndikofunikira kunena kuti kampani yatsopanoyo ili ndi gulu lawolawo lokhala ndi thandizo la ndalama kuchokera ku Carlyle Partners VI (yomwe ndi $ 13 biliyoni ya US). Kungoganiza kuti Project Denver Holdings isunga gulu lachitukuko la AppliedMicro ndipo idzagulitsa ndalama zokwanira mu X-Gene monse, kampani yatsopanoyo idzakhala ndi mwayi wopitilira kutsogolera kwa ma seva CPU a ARMv8. Pakadali pano, X-Gene imagwiritsidwa ntchito ndi opanga oposa seva khumi ndi awiri, motero Project Denver Holdings ikupeza bizinesi yomwe ili ndi zinthu zomwe zilipo, zomwe zikubwera komanso zamtsogolo komanso makasitomala.

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