SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The CCIX consortium
today announced that it has tripled its membership and has released
the specification to consortium members. Founding members, AMD,
ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox Technologies, Qualcomm Technologies
Inc., and Xilinx, Inc., welcome new members representing silicon
providers and ecosystem partners in design, verification, software,
and systems:
Amphenol Corp.
Arteris Inc.
Avery Design Systems
Atos
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Cavium, Inc.
Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
Keysight Technologies, Inc.
Micron Technology, Inc.
NetSpeed Systems
Red Hat Inc.
Synopsys, Inc.
Teledyne LeCroy
Texas Instruments
TSMC
CCIX allows processors based on different instruction set
architectures to extend their cache coherency to accelerators,
interconnect, and I/O. These highly capable accelerators become a
key component in the processor system. The availability of the CCIX
technology gives system designers the flexibility to choose the
right combination of heterogeneous components from multiple vendors
and address their specific system needs.
Through close collaboration, the member companies have aligned
to a CCIX specification release that addresses the need for
datacenter connectivity by utilizing the prevalent ecosystem that
exists today and enhancing it to enable higher bandwidth, lower
latency, and full coherency. In addition, the CCIX consortium has
chosen to use the PCI Express architecture as its first transport
layer with additional higher speeds of 25Gbps and beyond. CCIX
anticipates additional transport layers to be added in the future.
Using the PCI Express standard to transport the CCIX coherency
protocol eases the implementation of CCIX in processors and
accelerators. It also eases the deployment of CCIX technology in
servers by leveraging the existing hardware and software
infrastructure.
Availability
The CCIX specification is available
immediately to the consortium members. Initial products based on
CCIX technology are expected in 2017.
About CCIX Consortium
The CCIX consortium includes a
broad representation of industry leaders, working together to
develop a single interconnect technology specification that will
ensure that processors using different instruction set
architectures (ISA) can coherently share data with accelerators and
enable efficient heterogeneous computing – significantly improving
compute efficiency for servers running data center workloads and
embedded applications like 5G wireless and mobile edge computing.
Member companies include: AMD (NASDAQ:AMD), Amphenol Corp., ARM,
Arteris Inc., Avery Design Systems, Atos, Cadence Design Systems,
Inc., Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAVM), Huawei, Integrated Device
Technology, Inc., IBM (NYSE:IBM), Keysight Technologies, Inc.,
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ:MLNX), Micron Technology, Inc.
(NASDAQ:MU), NetSpeed Systems, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
(NASDAQ:QCOM), Red Hat Inc., Synopsys, Inc., Teledyne LeCroy, Texas
Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN), TSMC, and Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX). To learn
more visit www.ccixconsortium.com.
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Media Contacts:
AMD
Gary Silcott
512-602-0889
garysilcott@amd.com
ARM
Alex Harrod
+44 7795 363057
PR Manager, Europe and US, ARM
alexandra.harrod@arm.com
Andy Winstanley
+44 1223 405244/ +44 7788 249712
Director of External Communications, US and EMEA, ARM
andy.winstanley@arm.com
Arteris Inc.
Kurt
Shuler, Vice President of Marketing
408 470-7300
kurt.shuler@arteris.com
IBM
Kristin Bryson, Corporate
Communications
203-241-9190
kabryson@us.ibm.com
IDT
Dean Solov, Public
Relations Manager
408-284-2608
dean.solov@idt.com
Mellanox Technologies
Allyson Scott
McGrath/Power Public Relations and Communications
408-727-0351
allysonscott@mcgrathpower.com
Sharon Levin
Gelbart Kahana Investor Relations
+972-3-6070567
sharonl@gk-biz.com
NetSpeed Systems
Pauline
Shulman
+1-415-375-0303
pauline@pshulman.com
Qualcomm
Pete Lancia, Corporate
Communications
858-845-5959
corpcomm@qualcomm.com
John Sinnott, Investor
Relations
858-658-5431
ir@qualcomm.com
Xilinx
Silvia E. Gianelli
(408) 626-4328
silvia.gianelli@xilinx.com
CCIX Consortium Quote Sheet
"AMD welcomes the first release of the CCIX specification, as
well as the new members joining to establish CCIX as an open
standard for local interconnect to cache-coherent accelerators,"
said Gerry Talbot, AMD corporate
fellow and vice president of I/O and circuit technologies. "As a
committed supporter of open standards, AMD looks forward to
supporting the ongoing, broad collaboration on the specification
and adoption of the standard within the ecosystem."
"ARM was one of the founders of the Cache Coherence Interconnect
for Accelerators (CCIX) consortium and we welcome the new members
as evidence of the group's growing importance," said Vincent Korstanje, vice president of marketing
systems and software, ARM. "This open standard multichip coherency
protocol will enable new innovative, flexible, performant and
efficient infrastructure solutions."
"Exploding data center requirements are driving our industry to
create system architectures that more efficiently process data
using combinations of heterogeneous processing elements including
CPUs, GPUs and custom hardware accelerators," said Kurt Shuler, vice president of marketing at
Arteris. "Arteris is excited to participate in the development of
heterogeneous cache coherent interconnect protocol standards that
will ease the creation of these new architectures and improve
system scalability and flexibility."
"Atos is looking forward to contributing to CCIX. For many years
we have been offering accelerated servers as part of our Bull HPC
offer, even before accelerated solutions proliferated for big data
analytics and deep learning. We set a great store on openness, and
the CCIX framework will be capital to move to the next generation
of open accelerated solutions," explains Jean-Pierre Panziera, chief technology director
for Extreme Computing at Atos.
"CCIX is the latest interface standard for data center
accelerators, and we are committed to making this part of our broad
portfolio of design and verification IP," said Dino Bekis, vice president, product marketing,
IP Group at Cadence. "As an early member of the CCIX consortium,
Cadence is actively working to deliver IP that will speed the
availability of CCIX-compliant products in the marketplace."
"The CCIX consortium is driving the standardization of coherent
interconnect technology for accelerators," said Gopal Hegde, VP/GM Data Center Processor Group
at Cavium. "Cavium ThunderX® has led the industry by being the
first ARM®v8-based server processor to market with dual socket
cache coherency and integrated accelerators for targeted Hyperscale
Data Center workloads. We are pleased to participate in this
multi-vendor collaboration and we look forward to playing an active
role."
"IBM continues its commitment to openness and to participation
in industry wide collaboration that results in meaningful choice
for our clients." said Brad
McCredie, IBM fellow and vice president of POWER
Development. "Being part of multiple industry bus initiatives adds
to the technology options that can be leveraged to meet the various
demands of our clients. We confirmed the industry's interest in
coherency over PCIe on POWER8 with our CAPI protocol, and joined
CCIX to contribute to this technology and enable its integration
into a future generation of IBM microprocessor."
"IDT's strategy in data center is to provide all of the
essential low-latency interconnect, high-speed memory interfaces,
power management and timing solutions around accelerators and
processors needed to make real-time and time-bound applications
work seamlessly," said Sean Fan,
IDT's vice president for the Computing and Communications Division.
"As members of CCIX, we intend to contribute IDT technical and
product expertise from over two decades in PCI, PCIe, RapidIO and
memory technologies to enable the formulation of CCIX-based systems
to solve systems problems in an open industry collaborative
framework."
"The CCIX consortium mission is to enable greater data center
performance and efficiency, levering existing and well established
eco-systems," said Gilad Shainer,
vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "We are happy
to see and take part in this large vendor collaborations, and
excited to see the fast pace of the specification development.
We plan to incorporate the CCIX specification, to bring
standard cache coherency, faster data speeds and lower data latency
for the data center, in our future smart interconnect
solutions."
"While memory has always been an essential building block for
computing, it is quickly becoming the critical technology to
unlocking next-generation performance." said Tom Eby, vice president and GM of Micron's
compute and networking business. "Because open standards present
the best opportunity for rapid innovation, the CCIX consortium is
an important step in ensuring that developing architectures can
quickly adapt to capitalize on the dramatic benefits provided by
new memory technologies."
"As a leader in providing on-chip cache coherent interconnect
solutions, NetSpeed is delighted to be working with CCIX to extend
coherency across chips to enable next generation high performance
solutions to customers in data center, cloud and hyperscale
segments." said Sundari Mitra, CEO
and co-founder of NetSpeed Systems.
"Open architectures and open standards drive innovation in the
industry," said Chris Bergen, Senior
Director of Product Management at Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies.
"We look forward to next generation solutions enabled by the
intersection of leading edge processing and acceleration
technologies."
"Red Hat's drive for standardization across all tiers of the
datacenter makes CCIX a great convergence point for enabling
community-powered open source innovation using a coherent
interconnect, running across several processor architectures," said
Tim Burke, vice president, Platform
Engineering, Red Hat. "Combining multiple consortia efforts under
CCIX helps to lower adoption barriers and chart a path towards open
and innovative solutions based on workload acceleration
technologies. Red Hat looks forward to driving the convergence of
open source infrastructure layers allowing bare metal, virtualized
and container workloads to generically capitalize on a variety of
hardware accelerators."
"New standards such as CCIX support industry-wide
interoperability while enabling designers to use standards-based IP
to reduce their time-to-market," said John
Koeter, vice president of marketing for IP and prototyping
at Synopsys. "As a contributor to the CCIX working group, Synopsys
is helping to drive the first generation of this new,
high-performance specification. With more than ten years of PCI
Express leadership, we our leveraging our expertise to develop a
CCIX IP solution that will enable designers to improve the
bandwidth, latency and coherency of their cloud computing
SoCs."
"Xilinx is delighted by the enthusiastic response to the CCIX
effort by the industry. We welcome the new members who are further
energizing the consortium as we create a full ecosystem to enable
the design and deployment of upcoming CCIX based systems," said
Gaurav Singh, vice president of
Architecture at Xilinx and CCIX Chair. "Accelerators are becoming
ubiquitous in the data center and CCIX will unleash their full
capabilities while complementing the processor's performance."
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