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Cavium Introduces ThunderX™: A 2.5 GHz, 48 Core Family of Workload

Optimized Processors for Next Generation Data Center and Cloud Applications

World’s Highest Performing Power Optimized 64-bit ARM®-based Server SOC

SAN JOSE, Calif., and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced the introduction of a new game changing category of processors that are workload optimized for a range of applications in the cloud and data center. The 2.5GHz 48 core ThunderX is the world’s highest performing low-power 64-bit ARMv8 SoC family of workload optimized processors with a range of SKUs and form factors for high performance volume compute, storage, secure compute and networking specific workloads. Market Dynamics for Cloud and Next Generation Data Centers

Data center infrastructure transformation is one of the key trends driving IT spending in 2014 and beyond. Analysts predict that the global data center infrastructure market, including servers, storage, networking, security and virtualization, will reach $128 billion in 2014. Key trends driving this disruption include rapid adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enabled by Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with virtualized on demand compute, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Storage (SDS). The continued growth and adoption of Open Source Software with almost 100 billion lines of code and nearly 10 million active developers is also radically changing installed base software requirements. The current data center market has been serviced with processors that are designed with “one size fits all” approach and are based on a legacy control plane architecture where many of the networking, storage, virtualization and security functions are implemented in software or additional chips leading to huge system and rack level inefficiencies specific to performance, latency, footprint, power and cost. The realities of today’s new data center environment drive the need for an innovative SOC micro architecture that enables optimized solution development. New Category of Workload Optimized Processors: Foundation for the Next Generation Data Center

Workload optimized processors delivering high performance and highly optimized solutions for a range of applications in the cloud and data center infrastructure. The key features include highly optimized full custom processor cores, highly efficient caching subsystem, high memory bandwidth and capacity and end to end system virtualization. They also include high bandwidth customized I/O configurations along with application specific hardware accelerators delivering overall low end to end latency.

Cavium has a long history of delivering high-performance multi-core workload-optimized processors for networking, security and data plane processing applications through their highly successful OCTEON® and OCTEON Fusion® and NITROX® and Neuron Search® processor families. Introducing the ThunderX CN88XX Family of Processors

ThunderX consists of 24 to 48 cores and is the fifth generation of multi-core processor design from Cavium targeting high performance volume servers and appliances for large data centers and cloud infrastructure. This family of processors offers workload optimized SKU’s targeted for compute, storage, networking and secure compute segments.

This product family is based on highly efficient full custom processor cores designed by Cavium in 28nm process technology under architectural license from ARM. It is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture as well as ARM’s Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) standard while bringing to market dramatic enhancements that include:

- The first ARM based SoC that scales up to 48 cores with up to 2.5 GHz core frequency with 78K of I-Cache and 32K of D-Cache along with 16MB of L2 cache.

- The first ARM based SOC to be fully cache coherent across dual sockets using Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI™)

- Integrated I/O capacity with 100s of Gigabits of I/O bandwidth - Four DDR3/4 72 bit memory controllers capable of supporting 2400 MHz memories with

1TB of memory in a dual socket configuration - Hundreds of integrated hardware accelerators for security, storage, networking and

virtualization applications. - Standard based low latency Ethernet fabric interconnecting thousands of ThunderX™

nodes in 2D and 3D configurations and enabling fabric monitoring and SLA enforcements with awareness and policy enforcement for virtualized networks.

- Virtualization everywhere with Cavium virtSOC™ technology – Full system virtualization for low latency from virtual machine to I/O.

- Best in class performance per watt and performance per dollar for the target applications “The unprecedented demand for power and cost efficient workload optimized computing driven

from the data center and cloud is a disruptive opportunity for the industry. Our strategic

investment in technologies and solutions that matter to the data center over the past 10+ years

come together perfectly in ThunderX. We believe Cavium is well positioned to be a leading

vendor for the most demanding cloud workloads of the future,” said Syed Ali, President and

CEO of Cavium Inc.

“The ARM ecosystem is radically expanding the realms of possibility for cloud and data center

infrastructure,” said Simon Segars, chief executive officer, ARM. “ThunderX is an innovative

implementation of the ARMv8-A architecture. Together with ARM’s Server Based System

Architecture standard, it will accelerate the deployment of workload-optimized ARM-based

systems and transform the pace of innovation in the data center.”

ThunderX Workload Optimized Family of Processors

With ThunderX, Cavium will be delivering the most comprehensive family of integrated ARMv8 SOC products in the industry and for the first time data center and cloud operators will be able to truly optimize their deployments and workloads from the silicon all the way to the application.

ThunderX_CP™: Up to 48 highly efficient cores along with integrated virtSOC, dual socket coherency, multiple 10/40 GbE and high memory bandwidth. This family is optimized for private and public cloud web servers, content delivery, web caching, search and social media workloads.

ThunderX_ST™: Up to 48 highly efficient cores along with integrated virtSOC, multiple SATAv3 controllers, 10/40 GbE & PCIe Gen3 ports, high memory bandwidth, dual socket coherency, and scalable fabric for east-west as well as north-south traffic connectivity. This family includes hardware accelerators for data protection/ integrity/security, user to user efficient data movement (RoCE) and compressed storage. This family is optimized for Hadoop, block & object storage, distributed file storage and hot/warm/cold storage type workloads.

Thunder_SC™: Up to 48 highly efficient cores along with integrated virtSOC, 10/40 GbE connectivity, multiple PCIe Gen3 ports, high memory bandwidth, dual socket coherency, and scalable fabric for east-west as well as north-south traffic connectivity. The hardware accelerators include Cavium’s industry leading, 4th generation NITROX and TurboDPI technology with acceleration for IPSec, SSL, Anti-virus, Anti-malware, firewall and DPI. This family is optimized for Secure Web front-end, security appliances and Cloud RAN type workloads.

Thunder_NT™: Up to 48 highly efficient cores along with integrated virtSOC, 10/40/100

GbE connectivity, multiple PCIe Gen3 ports, high memory bandwidth, dual socket

coherency, and scalable fabric with feature rich capabilities for bandwidth provisioning ,

QoS, traffic Shaping and tunnel termination. The hardware accelerators include high

packet throughput processing, network virtualization and data monitoring. This family is

optimized for media servers, scale-out embedded applications and NFV type workloads.

“Cavium has leveraged its multiple generations of world class IP to engineer a highly integrated family of SOCs that we believe will set a new bar for performance, features, power and cost targeting next generation data center deployments. The ThunderX™ family of highly integrated SOCs is a finely tuned and balanced architecture designed from the ground up to deliver optimum application level performance,” said Gopal Hegde, Vice President and General Manager of Cavium’s Data Center Processor Group.

“With 48 cores, ThunderX far exceeds the per-socket performance of any ARM server

processor yet announced. This achievement draws on Cavium’s long experience with large

multi-core processors,” said Linley Gwennap, Principal Analyst at The Linley Group. “ThunderX

will enable Cavium to be the first ARM-based vendor to deliver the performance and features

required by today’s volume server market at half the power and significantly lower cost

compared to competing solutions for certain target workloads. This announcement shows that

the ARM camp is making progress in the server market, with Cavium leading the way.”

ThunderX CN87xx Family

The CN87xx consists of 8 to16 cores in single socket configuration with two DDR3/4 controllers, multiple 10GbE, SATAv3 and PCIe Gen3 interfaces. This family is cost and power optimized for entry level applications such as cold storage, distributed content delivery, dedicated hosting, distributed memory caching and embedded and control plane. ThunderX Comprehensive Software Ecosystem

Cavium is fully committed to industry standards, support for Open Source development and has a strategic and expanding core of blue chip software partners. ThunderX is enabled for efficient rack level deployment and application optimization from day one with fully developed firmware, Linux Kernel and Operating Systems, development tools, cloud infrastructure and scale out applications. Cavium’s engagement in the software ecosystem includes membership in the UEFI Forum, open source and industry groups such as OpenStack Foundation, the Linux Foundation, the Xen Advisory Board and Linaro. Cavium plays an active role in upstream Linux Kernel development that ensures standard support for all ThunderX product families and product features and demonstrated support for Linux OS distributions. These include Ubuntu, Fedora®, openSUSE and MontaVista, efficient and scalable virtualization support via KVM and Xen and full support for development environments including the GCC suite and Java. Many of these are available today for the ThunderX family.

In addition, Cavium is working directly with strategic commercial partners across the entire software ecosystem including application providers for Hadoop, Data Analytics, Web and Scale Out Storage. Availability

The ThunderX family of processors along with a range of hardware reference platforms will be available for general sampling in early Q4’2014. Fedora and the Infinity design logo are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc

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About Cavium, Inc. Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

For additional information, contact:

Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Cavium, Inc. Tel: (408) 943-7417 Email: [email protected]

ThunderX™, OCTEON®, NITROX®, are registered trademarks of Cavium, Inc.

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. © Cavium,

Inc. 2014.

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This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events that involve

risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only

predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. These forward-looking

statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions and current expectations.

Our actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such

forward-looking statements as a result of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions. The risks

and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or

implied by such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to development of new

products and technologies; quality and performance of our products; whether we are successful

in marketing our products; the rate at which our new products are adopted; rate of new design

wins; product developments by our competitors; technological advances; pricing pressures;

general economic conditions; manufacturing difficulties; and other risks and uncertainties

described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange

Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Cavium’s business

are set forth in the “Risk Factors” section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and

Exchange Commission on May 2, 2014. All forward-looking statements in this press release are

based on information available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this

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cautionary statement, and we assume no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking

statements.

Cavium Announces Collaboration with Oracle to Support the ThunderX™

Processor Family

Oracle JDK 8 for 64-bit ARMv8 will enable ThunderX software developers to quickly develop and deliver optimized software solutions.

Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a semiconductor

products company that enables intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired

and wireless networking, today announced a collaboration with Oracle in support of Cavium’s

ThunderX processor family. With this collaboration Oracle plans to certify and optimize the

upcoming port of Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8) for the ARMv8 architecture for

Cavium’s ThunderX processors.

“We have been working with ARM on making our enterprise grade Java SE 8 implementation

available on the new wave of 64-bit ARMv8 servers. We are thrilled to extend this collaboration

to Cavium who will make ThunderX hardware and engineering resources available to us,

helping to ensure top-notch quality performance for Cavium and Oracle customers as these

products hit the market”, said Henrik Stahl, Vice President, Product Management, Java &

Internet of Things at Oracle.

“Our collaboration with Oracle is a strong message to the ThunderX software community that

Cavium’s support for the Java development community is a strategic priority. The multi-core

scalability performance improvements recently demonstrated in Java 8 SE are particularly

compelling for ThunderX,” said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner

Enablement. “The combination of Oracle’s technical leadership in Java with Cavium’s

leadership in multi-core silicon architecture and design is a big win for the server industry.”

The ThunderX product family provides best in class 64-bit ARMv8 data center and cloud

processors, which we believe will offer an unprecedented level of integration and industry

leading ARMv8 SoC performance. With high performance custom cores, single and dual socket

configurations, very high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware

accelerators, fully virtualized core and I/O, scalable Ethernet fabric and feature rich I/O’s that

enable best in class performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family

includes multiple workload oSKUs that enable servers and appliances that are optimized for

compute, storage, network and secure compute workloads in the cloud. The ThunderX

processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as ARM’s

SBSA.

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About Cavium, Inc. Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications. . Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com. For additional information, contact: Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Cavium, Inc. Tel: (408) 943-7417 Email: [email protected]

ThunderX is a trademark of Cavium, Inc. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle

and/or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights

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wins; whether we continue to develop and maintain our collaborations and relationships with our

ecosystem partners; product developments by our competitors; technological advances; pricing

pressures; general economic conditions; manufacturing difficulties; and other risks and

uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and

Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Cavium’s

business are set forth in the “Risk Factors” section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities

and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2014. All forward-looking statements in this press release


are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by

this cautionary statement, and we assume no obligation to revise or update these forward-

looking statements.

Cavium Expands Collaboration with Fedora Project to Accelerate ARMv8 Software Ecosystem

ThunderX™ Workload Optimized Processor Family delivers Industry-leading Features

and Performance for ARMv8 Based Servers

SAN JOSE, Calif. and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced that it has expanded its collaboration with the Fedora Project, a Red Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration.

Fedora 20, the latest version of the free, Linux-based operating system, introduced support for ARM as a primary architecture. Cavium is collaborating with the Fedora Project community to enable support for Cavium’s 64-bit ThunderX processor family in the forthcoming Fedora 21 release.

Cavium has relied on the Fedora Project to develop standard support for the differentiated capabilities of ThunderX including up to 48 cores in a single SoC, cache coherent dual socket support using Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI™), and integrated hardware accelerators for security, storage, networking and virtualization applications.

“With support for key industry standards and an active engineering engagement in the open source community, Cavium is demonstrating the commitment it takes to build and drive a thriving server software ecosystem. Cavium’s collaboration with the Fedora community plays a key role in driving momentum for the ARMV8 architecture,” said Jon Masters, chief ARM architect at Red Hat.

“Cavium is committed to building and driving the server ecosystem that today’s data centers and cloud environments demand. Our collaboration with the Fedora Project community is a key part of this strategy,” said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement at Cavium. “Cavium is pleased to bring its leadership in multi-core silicon architecture and design to the Fedora community.”

The ThunderX product family provides the best in class 64-bit ARMv8 data center and cloud processors, which we believe will offer an unprecedented level of integration and industry leading ARMv8 SoC performance. With high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators, fully virtualized core and IO, scalable Ethernet fabric and feature rich I/O’s that enable best in class performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX™ 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 ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as ARM’s SBSA.

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About Cavium, Inc. Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com. For additional information, contact: Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Cavium, Inc. Telephone: +1 408-943-7417 Email: [email protected] ThunderX is a trademark of Cavium, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective

owners. All rights reserved. © Cavium, Inc. 2014.


This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events that

involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking

statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or

results. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as

assumptions and current expectations. Our actual results and the timing of events could

differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of

these risks, uncertainties and assumptions. The risks and uncertainties that could cause

our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking

statements include but are not limited to development of new products and

technologies; quality and performance of our products; whether we are successful in

marketing our products; the rate at which our new products are adopted; rate of new

design wins; whether we continue to develop and maintain our collaborations and

relationships with our ecosystem partners; product developments by our competitors;

technological advances; pricing pressures; general economic conditions; manufacturing

difficulties; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed

with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about

these and other risks that may impact Cavium’s business are set forth in the “Risk

Factors” section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission

on May 2, 2014. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on

information available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this

cautionary statement, and we assume no obligation to revise or update these forward-

looking statements.


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Gigabyte Technology Announces Expansion of Server Platforms based on

Cavium’s ThunderX™ Workload Optimized Processor Family

Optimized Systems Supporting First Volume Server ARM64 Solutions

Taipei, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – GIGABYTE Technology, a leading creator of high performance

server hardware, and Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products

that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking,

today announced a strategic partnership to deliver workload optimized server platforms based on

Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX product family.

Gigabyte’s award winning product portfolio has been long recognized in the industry as a leader in

design and innovation. With a broad offering of volume server platforms Gigabyte has demonstrated

engineering expertise in areas of system level integration of compute with I/O, large memory

configurations and power optimization. With a world-wide presence Gigabyte is uniquely positioned to

accelerate the delivery and deployment of ThunderX based systems into cloud and data center.

Gigabyte’s product portfolio is being offered targeting different server categories i.e. compute,

storage, networking and secure-computing specific workloads thereby providing best-n-class

performance per watt and performance per dollar. This wide range of processor offering would enable

Gigabyte Technologies to meet the demands of next generation data center & cloud by offering

workload optimized servers ranging from 1U to 6U chassis in standard rack and open rack form

factors.

The 1U design in Micro ATX form factor with multiple PCIe Gen3 and SATA connectors for expansion

modules along with high memory capacity is an ideal platform for single socket workload application.

In addition, this platform provides user access to all the Ethernet and USB ports and is well suited for

developers and data center architectures. The Gigabyte 2U high density rack server platform in SSI

form factor can accept 4 compute nodes (each node being a 2S), 24 2.5” HDDs and 80Gbps of

external bandwidth including four 10Gbps uplinks and four 10Gbps chassis interlinks. The integrated

Ethernet fabric enables scalable rack levels interconnect supporting fault-tolerance architecture as well

as port optimization for inter-rack connectivity. This specific platform is designed to deliver workload

optimized acceleration to the most demanding applications in big data and virtualization domains. Full

BMC management with integrated IPMI for out of band management is supported on these platforms.

“Gigabyte’s new line of ARMv8 server offerings enabled by Cavium’s ThunderX processors provides

Data Center, Cloud and Enterprise best in class workload optimized solution,” said Etay Lee, General

Manager of Gigabyte Technology. “Working closely with Cavium, we’ve developed highly integrated

system solution enabling a very efficient and cost effective path to design high density Hyperscale

class server products using the industry’s best ARMv8 server class processor. The Hyperscale server

market demands more sophistication, richer functionality and workload specific optimization. Gigabyte

Technology is the solution provider of choice with enterprise-class engineering, manufacturing and

support expertise in this area. Our innovation, reliability and flexibility deliver time-to-market

advantages to customers developing next generation data center & cloud solutions."

“The Cavium ThunderX workload optimized multi-core ARMv8 product family offers up to 48 cores

with integrated accelerators and Ethernet fabric is well suited for next generation data center and

cloud infrastructure, “ said Rishi Chugh, Director Product Marketing for Cavium’s Data Center

Processor Group. “By using Cavium’s ThunderX class processors, Gigabyte is able to offer a wide

variety of high performance reconfigurable, high volume 1U and 2U systems in single and dual socket

configurations as well as reference platforms that fully utilize core differentiators such as integrated

Ethernet fabric, large SATA port integration and PCIe Gen 3. Together, we are delivering the

performance, scalability and reliability necessary for businesses to handle increasingly complex data

intensive workloads in highly virtualized cloud based environments.”

The ThunderX product family provides best-in-class 64-bit ARMv8 data center and cloud processors,

which we believe will offer an unprecedented level of integration and industry leading SoC

performance. With high performance custom 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, this family of processors deliver best in class

performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes multiple SKUs that

enable servers that are optimized for compute, storage, network and security workloads in the cloud.

The ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as

ARM’s SBSA.

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About Gigabyte Technologies

Gigabyte was founded in 1986, establishing our uncontested position in continuous technological

innovation. By focusing on key technologies and achieving strict quality standards, Gigabyte has been

regarded as an innovative and trusted motherboard leader in the globe. To keep pace in a rapidly

changing world, we have offered a comprehensive product line covering Motherboards, Graphics

Cards, PC Components, PC Peripherals, Laptops, Slate Devices, Desktop PCs, Network

Communications, Servers and Mobile Phones. Gigabyte Technologies are dedicated to building up a

full-range digital life, responding promptly and sonorously to consumer needs and desires.

About Cavium, Inc.

Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent

processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance

from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-

center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are

supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and

other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in

California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please

visit: http://www.cavium.com.


Andre Hu, Director of Datacenter Sales Division, Gigabyte Technology

TEL: +886 8912 4000 ext. 1269 [email protected] ThunderX is a trademark of Cavium, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their

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Canonical Announces Expanded Ubuntu Support for the Cavium Workload Optimized ThunderX™ Processor Family

Optimization for Deployment and Provisioning Cloud Based Workloads at Scale

London and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Canonical, the commercial organisation behind Ubuntu and the leading provider of support services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise today announced expanded support for the ThunderX SoC family from Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking. With this announcement Canonical builds on the

strategic partnership that initially delivered Ubuntu 13.10 support on ThunderX in 2013.

Canonical will continue to provide development and support for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release on

ThunderX, as announced in April. Ubuntu is the first commercial-grade platform for ARM64

computing. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS includes Juju and MAAS to easily design, deploy and scale services

faster than any other platform available today, on cloud or bare metal. Juju meets the DevOps

imperative for agility, continuous deployment and integration, and MAAS provides scalable bare-metal

deployment. With optimized integration for the ThunderX SoC Family, Ubuntu delivers the

requirements of a true Hyperscale Data Center environment.

We believe the ThunderX SoC family will deliver an optimal combination of compute, storage,

networking and security integration for the scale out cloud and cloud specific workloads. Canonical

has demonstrated industry leadership in the cloud market and is the most widely used OpenStack

distribution with its investment in OpenStack development and deployment. With today’s

announcement Canonical will be partnering with Cavium to optimize OpenStack for the ThunderX SoC

family. This will include Cavium’s participation in Canonical’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL).

The Lab runs over 3,000 OpenStack tests each week, using different combinations of Ubuntu,

OpenStack and third party technologies, to provide customer assurance of interoperability and

performance with their preferred solutions in private OpenStack environments.

“Cavium has proven to be a key partner for the Ubuntu community and Canonical. Canonical is a leader in the ARM software ecosystem and ThunderX™ allows us to truly showcase Ubuntu in the hyperscale server market,” commented Christian Reis, VP Hyperscale at Canonical. “The Cavium team has demonstrated a strong commitment to open source development and upstream community engagement. We look forward to continuing to build on our partnership with Cavium.”

“We believe our partnership with Canonical has demonstrated to the market what true collaboration is

all about. The complement of Canonical’s leadership in cloud deployment optimized for Cavium’s

ThunderX SoC solution we believe this addresses what today’s data centers have been looking for,”

said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement. “Canonical continues to

demonstrate thought leadership in key server market segments and we believe our end users will

benefit from this partnership.”

The ThunderX product family provides the best in class 64-bit ARMv8 Data Center & Cloud processors,

which we believe offer an unprecedented level of integration and industry leading ARMv8 SoC

performance. With high performance custom 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 that enable best in class performance per dollar

and performance per watt. The ThunderX 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 ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture

specifications as well as ARM’s SBSA.

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About Canonical

Canonical is the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project and the leading provider of support

services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise. Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client,

server and cloud computing. Since its launch in 2004, it has become a natural choice for users of all

kinds, from Fortune 500 companies to hardware makers, content providers, software developers and

individual technologists. With developers, support staff and engineering centers all over the world,

Canonical is uniquely positioned to help its partners and enterprise customers make the most of

Ubuntu. Canonical is a privately held company.

About Cavium, Inc. Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications . Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance

from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com

For additional information, contact: Canonical Contact: Sian Aherne

PR & AR Manager Canonical Comms Team

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Cavium Contact: Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Tel: (408) 943-7417 Email: [email protected]

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statements include but are not limited to development of new products and technologies; quality and performance of our products; whether we are successful in marketing our products; the rate at which our new products are adopted; rate of new design wins; whether we continue to develop and maintain our collaborations and relationships with our ecosystem partners; product developments by our competitors; technological advances; pricing pressures; general economic conditions; manufacturing difficulties; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Cavium’s business are set forth in the “Risk Factors” section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2014. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and we assume no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements.

American Megatrends Announces Partnership with Cavium to

Support the ThunderX™ Processor Family

AMI’s scalable Aptio® UEFI Firmware and MegaRAC® SP-X management solutions will enable ThunderX partners to quickly deliver complete system solutions to the market.

SAN JOSE, Calif., NORCROSS, Georgia and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI), today announced a partnership with Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), in support of Cavium’s ThunderX processor family. With this partnership AMI and Cavium are collaborating to deliver the most complete firmware and platform management solution in the scale out data center and cloud industry today.

AMI has been consistent as a leader in the technology industry and is the world’s largest firmware vendor. Founded in 1985, AMI has long been recognized for its high quality, advanced design and hands on engineering support. AMI is uniquely positioned to provide the fundamental components necessary for today’s enterprise computing demands.

As a Cavium Partner, AMI will provide development and support for its flagship Aptio® UEFI Firmware, which brings the features of the UEFI specification to system manufacturers in a production-ready firmware that is fully enabled for all enterprise-class Operating Systems. AMI’s leadership role in the industry for standards-based firmware development, along with a feature rich roadmap, will complement Cavium’s ThunderX industry leading ARMv8 SoC integration of high core count computing, networking, I/O and hardware acceleration.

AMI will also provide development and support for its MegaRAC® SP-X product line, which brings powerful and extensible remote management to a wide breadth of system designs and configurations. AMI’s industry-proven track record of scalable system and chassis management will enable Cavium’s partners to quickly deliver complete system solutions to the market.

“Cavium is a key partner with AMI in expanding our server design capability to include the rapidly growing hyperscale market. AMI has been impressed with the tremendous feature set and truly differentiating technology that Cavium offers with ThunderX. With our proven track record for Aptio® UEFI Firmware and MegaRAC® SP-X management solutions we are confident that our system partners will benefit greatly from this partnership,” said Subramonian Shankar, President and CEO of American Megatrends. “We look forward to continuing to build on our partnership with Cavium.”

“Our partnership with AMI is a key part of our overall ThunderX strategy with an intense focus on enabling our partners to quickly benefit from the game changing features that ThunderX brings to the server market. We welcome AMI’s endorsement of ThunderX and the outstanding technology leadership that AMI has demonstrated in the area of firmware and systems management,” said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement. “With its world-wide sales and support infrastructure and

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recognized engineering, AMI will provide a compelling complement to ThunderX.” The ThunderX product family provides best-in-class 64-bit ARMv8 data center and cloud processors, which we believe will offer an unprecedented level of integration and industry leading ARMv8 SoC performance. With high performance custom 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 that enable best in class performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX 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 ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as ARM’s SBSA.

About AMI: Founded in 1985 and known worldwide for AMIBIOS®, American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) supplies state-of-the-art hardware, software, and utilities to top-tier manufacturers of desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems. AMI’s industry leading Aptio® V UEFI BIOS firmware, innovative StorTrends® Network Storage hardware and software products and MegaRAC® remote server management solutions continue to garner industry acclaim and awards around the world. In line with the diversity of its technology and product line, AMI is a member of a number of industry associations and standards groups, such as the Unified EFI Forum (UEFI), the Intel® Intelligent Systems Alliance and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, AMI has locations in the U.S., China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan to better serve its customers.

About Cavium, Inc. Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications. . Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com Cavium Contact:

Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Tel: (408) 943-7417 Email: [email protected]

AMI Contact:


Chris Menosky Marketing Communications Manager Tel: (770) 246-8617 Email: [email protected]























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MontaVista Announces MV Cloud Support for the Cavium ThunderX™ Workload Optimized Processor Family

Leading Platform for NFV, Cloud RAN and SDN Customers

SAN JOSE, Calif. and Computex, Taipei, June 3, 2014 –MontaVista® Software, LLC, a

leader in Carrier Grade Linux and Cloud Platform software solutions, today announced the

availability of the MV Cloud platform for the ThunderX SoC product family from Cavium, Inc.

(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent

processing for enterprise, cloud, data center, wired and wireless infrastructure.

MV Cloud is built upon MontaVista’s seventh generation CGE7 product, a high availability

Carrier Grade Linux operating system that is optimized for networking performance and

operation in embedded, low latency environments. MV Cloud enables rapid deployment of a

highly reliable and high performance cloud platforms that are open, extensible with a rich

application ecosystem. MV Cloud extends support for a massive ecosystem of open source

and third party software that includes KVM, OpenvSwitch (OVS), Open Data Plane (ODP),

Openstack and Open DayLight. In addition, MV Cloud offers significant key differentiating

features that include:

Hypervisor layer that provides realtime-deterministic latency response and optimized

capabilities for resource utilization and reservation for virtualized environment

Tools for Analytics, debugging and Traceability across the layers of the entire Cloud

platform.

Application context and intelligence through a fully integrated Policy Management

framework

OSS/BSS integration specifically customized for virtualized loads built on top of Cloud

environments like NFV.

Optimization and improved latency for Cloud RAN use cases

Cloud platform intelligence for providing function and service offload in the hardware.

Together these features provide a focused fit for NFV, Cloud RAN and SDN customers.

MontaVista will deliver a tightly integrated and highly optimized solution for the ThunderX SoC

Family. MV Cloud leverages the workload optimized features of ThunderX that enable

offloading of networking, security and data plane processing, and dynamic VM per core

allocation.

“MontaVista is a leading provider of carrier grade Linux and Cloud solutions. MV Cloud is a

Cloud Platform solution that leverages Cavium’s ThunderX SoC solution, allowing for high

performance switching offload, using the SoC’s state-of-the-art integrated multicore

architecture.” says Monear Jalal, Senior Director of Marketing for MontaVista, “Cavium’s

ThunderX and MontaVista’s MV Cloud Platform provides a highly integrated solution to meet the

demand of the next generation software defined datacenter.”

“Our partnership with MontaVista has been established over the years, and jointly Cavium and

MontaVista offer best-in-class solutions that are highly optimized and feature rich. The

extension of MV Cloud support for the ThunderX family of SoCs is further commitment from

MontaVista to maintain this leadership position with Cavium. We strongly believe that the MV

Cloud-ThunderX solution will be highly desirable to customers developing a wide range of Cloud

enabled products,” said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement.

“MontaVista has a strong reputation with Carrier Grade Linux deployments over the years, and

the MV Cloud offering will extend MontaVista’s reach into the server segment as well.”





accelerators, fully virtualized core and IO, scalable Ethernet fabric and feature rich I/O’s that

enable best in class performance/$ and performance/watt. The ThunderX family includes

multiple workload optimized SKUs that enable servers & appliances that are optimized for

compute, storage, network and secure compute workloads in the cloud. The ThunderX

processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as ARM’s

SBSA.

About MontaVista Software

MontaVista Software, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cavium, is a leading provider of Carrier

Grade Linux and Cloud Platform solutions. For over 14 years, MontaVista has been helping

Linux developers get the most out of open source by adding commercial quality, integration,

hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the MontaVista development

community. Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time to market, more competitive

device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista

than with any other Linux. To learn more, please visit www.mvista.com

About Cavium, Inc.

Caviumis a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent

processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications.

Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in

performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in

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enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment.

Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool

support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose,

California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For

more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.


Monear Jalal

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Cavium to Contribute ARMv8 Based Platform Architecture to Open Compute Project, Based on ThunderX™ Family of Workload-Optimized Processors

First ARMv8 Multi-Socket Volume Server OCP Server Design

SAN JOSE, Calif. and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ:

CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for

enterprise, data center, cloud wired and wireless networking, today announced plans for server

contributions to the Open Compute Project Foundation based on the ThunderX family of

workload optimized processors. In addition Cavium announced that it is joining the Open

Compute Project (OCP).

As a member of the Open Compute Project, Cavium is committed to provide leadership in the

core areas of System and Server design. Cavium will contribute the first Open Rack compatible

motherboard specification for cache-coherent, multi-socket configurations targeted for the

ARMv8 architecture. This design will be based on Cavium’s workload-optimized ThunderX

processor family which integrates the Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI™) in

addition to full support for integrated high bandwidth multiport switches, high speed storage and

PCI-e interfaces.

This commitment will include the contribution of designs, specifications and community

engagement. With Cavium’s history of industry leading technical expertise in the security and

networking market, combined with today’s announcement of the ThunderX SoC family for the

server market, Cavium is well positioned to help the OCP community continue to build on its

mission of efficient designs for scalable computing.

“At the Open Compute Foundation we continue to see our members have a growing impact on

the direction of the Hyperscale and Cloud Computing infrastructure in today’s Data Centers.

Cavium’s technical expertise and core competence in the fundamental areas that matter aligns

perfectly with the OCP mission,” said Cole Crawford, Executive Director of the Open Compute

Project Foundation. “We look forward to working closely with the Cavium team and benefiting

from their contributions to OCP.”

“The excitement and creativity that the Open Compute Project has brought to scale out system

and data center design is a big win for the entire server industry. Cavium is committed to play a

leadership role in working with the OCP community to continue to enhance design capability

and deliver substantial value to end users,” said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems

and Partner Enablement. “Cavium’s strategy of leadership in building and supporting a thriving

OpenSource Hardware and Software community for the ARM based server market takes

another step forward with our OCP participation.”

The ThunderX product family provides best-in-class 64-bit ARMv8 data center and cloud





enable best-in-class performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX 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

ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as

ARM’s SBSA.

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About Cavium, Inc. Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com


Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Cavium, Inc. Telephone: +1 408-943-7417 Email: [email protected] ThunderX is a trademark of Cavium, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
























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Cavium Delivers Next Generation Xen Virtualization with ThunderX™ Family of Workload Optimized Processors

Cavium Joins Linux Foundation Xen Project as Advisory Board Member

SAN JOSE, Calif. and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ:

CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for

enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced that Cavium’s

ThunderX, family of workload optimized processors will support next generation of Xen

virtualization. In addition, Cavium has joined the Xen Project as an Advisory Board member.

The Xen Project technology is a Collaborative Project hosted by The Linux Foundation.

The ThunderX family of processors from Cavium delivers integrated virtualization support for

both compute and I/O centric workloads. The Xen optimization for the ARMv8 architecture has

proven to be the high performance hypervisor technology that can deliver the full set of

virtualization features with optimal performance required by scalable cloud deployments and

applications. The support for what we believe will be the largest multi-core ARMv8

implementation and multi-socket cache coherency in Thunder takes the Xen virtualization

capability to a whole new level of performance and features.

As a Xen Project Advisory Board member, Cavium will contribute to and help guide the Project

that has been a key technology for supporting virtualization on ARM-based servers with

significant optimizations specific to the underlying ARM architecture.

"Citrix is the cloud company that enables mobile work styles. Citrix and Cavium have been

collaborating within the open-source Xen Project community to bring efficient and high quality

Xen virtualization to ARM processors, in particular building hypervisor support for next-

generation interrupt controllers based on the GICv3 architecture" said James Bulpin, Senior

Director of Technology, XenServer, Citrix. "We are very happy to see Cavium joining the Xen

Project Advisory Board, a move that further strengthens the Xen Project community and

demonstrates Cavium's engineering commitment to it. We congratulate Cavium on the launch of

their ThunderX Processor Family and eagerly anticipate system-level virtualization solutions at

the hyperscale level of deployment based on this multi-core SoC."

“Xen Project virtualization is deployed in some of the largest hyperscale data centers in the

industry. Our new ARM support for power optimized servers is tailor-made for scale out

virtualized workloads. As a leader in ARM server architecture and design, security and

networking processors, Cavium is uniquely positioned to leverage the strengths of our open

software and play a key role in the future of cloud computing,” said Lars Kurth, chairman of the

Xen Project Advisory Board.

“Expanding our membership with the Linux Foundation is another example of Cavium’s

commitment to the Open Source community in general and the Xen Project virtualization

solution in particular. The combination of the virtualization support at the core of the ThunderX

SoC family with demonstrated advances that Xen Project software is bringing to the ARMv8

architecture is a game changer for today’s large-scale data center and cloud computing

environments,” said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement.

“We look forward to working with the Advisory Board to continue Xen Project momentum in the

server market.”

Xen Project open source virtualization software is licensed under the GPLv2 with a similar

governance structure to the Linux kernel. Designed from the start for cloud computing, the

project is being used by more than 10 million users and is backed by years of development and

deployment in the most demanding environments.







includes multiple workload-optimized SKUs that enable servers and appliances that are



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About Cavium, Inc. Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100Mbps to over 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com For additional information, contact:

Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Cavium, Inc. Telephone: +1 408-943-7417 Email: [email protected]

ThunderX is a trademark of Cavium, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. © Cavium, Inc. 2014.


This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions and current expectations. Our actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to development of new products and technologies; quality and performance of our products; whether we are successful in marketing our products; the rate at which our new products are adopted; rate of new design wins; whether we continue to develop and maintain our collaborations and relationships with our ecosystem partners; product developments by our competitors; technological advances; pricing pressures; general economic conditions; manufacturing difficulties; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Cavium’s business are set forth in the “Risk Factors” section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2014. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and we assume no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements.



openSUSE Community Announces Partnership with Cavium to Support the

ThunderX™ Workload Optimized Processor Family

Initial Port Developed for ThunderX to Enable Broader Community Engagement

SAN JOSE, Calif., and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – The openSUSE

Community today announced a partnership with Cavium, Inc., in support of the ThunderX

processor family. With this partnership Cavium will work with the openSUSE community to

provide engineering resources along with ThunderX based reference systems for openSUSE

development, optimization and support.

openSUSE has been working on ARMv8 AArch64 support for the last two years, not just within

the distribution but also in its toolsets. The first AArch64 build was released in March 2013, after

having developed the user mode emulation for QEMU which was submitted upstream and

subsequently merged. This has enabled the Open Build Service to support AArch64, providing

developers an easy way to build and package their software for the architecture; there are

builds available for the current 13.1 release and regular builds of the development snapshot of

the distribution.

As the openSUSE distribution is the foundation for SUSE Linux Enterprise, it offers a stable

incubation environment for new technology. openSUSE believes strongly in providing choice

and in addition to providing support for KVM they have been working closely with the Xen

project. openSUSE has full support both for Xen and KVM hypervisors on

AArch64 providing users choice when it comes to hypervisors and workloads such as Open

Stack.

“The openSUSE community works closely with its peers, and working with the ARM ecosystem

is able to provide an image for the Cavium ThunderX platform. This image provides all the

components required to be able to deploy ThunderX on various workloads, from Big Data and

Hyperscale to traditional server loads,” said Vincent Untz, openSUSE Board Chair. “Cavium has

been an active partner to ensure the best possible support for openSUSE on AArch64.

openSUSE is greatly respected for its technology and strong development community.”

“ThunderX is well suited to the workloads that customers are running today on their openSUSE

deployments,” said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement. “As

this community continues to grow we look forward to even greater acceleration of software

innovation and optimization for ThunderX.”







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About OpenSUSE: openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE and a number of other companies.

About Cavium, Inc. Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com


Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Cavium, Inc. Telephone: +1 408-943-7417 Email: [email protected]

ThunderX is a trademark of Cavium, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective

owners. All rights reserved. © Cavium, Inc. 2014.

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This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events that

involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking

statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or

results. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as

assumptions and current expectations. Our actual results and the timing of events could

differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of

these risks, uncertainties and assumptions. The risks and uncertainties that could cause

our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking

statements include but are not limited to development of new products and

technologies; quality and performance of our products; whether we are successful in

marketing our products; the rate at which our new products are adopted; rate of new

design wins; whether we continue to develop and maintain our collaborations and

relationships with our ecosystem partners; product developments by our competitors;

technological advances; pricing pressures; general economic conditions; manufacturing

difficulties; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed

with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about

these and other risks that may impact Cavium’s business are set forth in the “Risk

Factors” section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission

on May 2, 2014. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on

information available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this

cautionary statement, and we assume no obligation to revise or update these forward-

looking statements.

Cavium Joins Xen Project Advisory Board

Semiconductor Company Leverages Networking and Security Legacy To Advance Xen

Project Hypervisor on ARM® Roadmap

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3, 2014--The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the

Linux Foundation today announced Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a semiconductor

products company to enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud,

wired and wireless networking, as a new Xen Project Advisory Board member.

While availability of low-power processors hold great promise for cloud operators with

variable workloads, IT professionals are grappling with how to best scale, optimize IT

and minimize power and expenses with web and data-driven applications. As an

Advisory Board member, Cavium will help address these market challenges by

enhancing Xen Project virtualization on ARM-based servers.

Available in the latest Xen Project hypervisor release, the software’s lean architecture is

perfectly suited to ARM architecture-based solutions for data center applications,

energy-efficient cloud operations as well as embedded applications.

“Xen Project virtualization is at the heart of our new ThunderX™ SoC Family targeted at

users needing easier deployment, lower downtime and improved management and

utilization,” said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement

at Cavium. “Xen Project software is proven in the cloud and first to market with ARM

support. Collaboration with the open Xen Project community will be extremely valuable

as data centers evolve in the future.”

Cavium's efforts will complement a growing community of Xen Project developers from

ARM, Applied Micro, Broadcom, and GlobalLogic, among others, already contributing to

ARM support. Beyond server applications, Xen Project virtualization on ARM is being

piloted in embedded, automotive, aviation and mobile/Android applications where

reduced costs, increased efficiency and improved performance also offer significant

competitive advantage.

“Developing high-performance multicore processors and software, Cavium has vast

experience serving the cloud and data center markets, which will be an asset as we

focus on improving performance and hardware support for ARM,” said Lars Kurth, Xen

Project Advisory Board Chairman. “Cavium’s investment in the open Xen Project

hypervisor will also help ensure hardware and software compatibility to best optimize

new workloads and hyperscale applications with ARM-based servers.”

The fifth Xen Project Advisory Board member named since becoming a Linux

Foundation Collaborative Project, Cavium joins ARM, NetApp, Rackspace and Verizon

Terremark as the newest companies to invest in the open source hypervisor. The Xen

Project Advisory Board is comprised of companies who are committed to the market

and technical success of Xen Project software. Member companies provide financial

support, technical contributions, and set high-level policy decisions.

About Xen Project

Xen Project software is an open source virtualization platform licensed under the GPLv2

with a similar governance structure to the Linux kernel. Designed from the start for cloud

computing, the Project has more than a decade of development and is being used by

more than 10 million users. A Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation, the Xen

Project community is focused on advancing virtualization in a number of different

commercial and open source applications including server virtualization, Infrastructure

as a Services (IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, embedded and

hardware appliances. It counts many industry and open source community leaders

among its members including: Amazon Web Services, AMD, ARM, Bromium, CA

Technologies, Cavium, Cisco, Citrix, Google, Intel, Oracle, Rackspace, and Verizon

Terremark. For more information about the Xen Project software and to participate,

please visit XenProject.org.

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Sarah Conway

The Xen Project

Media Contact

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