Semiconductor maker NetLogic Microsystems and commercial packet-processing software provider 6WIND have announced an expansion of their collaboration to deliver high-performance support for NetLogic’s XLP832 multicore communications processor. The XLP832 processor handles networking apps including security appliances, Layer 4 through Layer 7 switching, storage networking, 3G/4G wireless, and small business networks. The 6WINDGate software suite provides high packet-processing performance necessary for advanced services. The XLP multicore processor family is the only embedded comm processor with quad-issue, quad-threaded, and superscalar out-of-order capabilities with scalability to 128 NXCPUs operating at 2 GHz, according to the companies. XLP cores are quad-threaded to minimize bottlenecks and memory latencies, and they employ a tri-level architecture with more than 50 Mbytes of cache.

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