A new generation of programmable network processors coming out this year may have a better shot than previous chips at getting into switches and routers, allowing ...

The Network Processing Forum this week released benchmark specifications for measuring the performance of network processors. The industry consortium started laying out its benchmarks in October; this ...

Intel announces three new network processors this week for a market that may finally begin to take off. The three new chips--the IXP 420, 421 and 422--are essentially the same Xscale-based chip ...

IBM says tomorrow's smart computer networks begin with today's chips. The network processor, an increasingly popular class of chips, is charged with helping to identify and route data over a network.

Business networks must keep supplying additional bandwidth while maintaining acceptable standards of performance even as they keep up with Internet traffic growth. Security and other services further ...

A wave of project cancellations has swept over network processor design companies in recent months, redefining the already troubled market and causing analysts to dramatically lower their revenue ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaS®) company, today announces VIP8000, a highly scalable and programmable ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Intel plans to announce a new network processor on ...

Advancements in LAN silicon continue, as Xelerated has started to ship a network processor capable of running 10 Gigabit Ethernet links. The fabless semiconductor company showed the X10q-e processor ...

SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriSilicon (688521.SH), a leading Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaS ®) company, today announced its neural network processor (the Vivante 1 NPU) IP designed for ...

Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled its QuantumFlow Processor, a networking semiconductor that has 40 cores on a single chip. The processor, the result of a five-year Cisco development effort, has a fully ...