Английская Википедия:Cavium

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Cavium was a fabless semiconductor company based in San Jose, California, specializing in ARM-based and MIPS-based network, video and security processors and SoCs. The company was co-founded in 2000 by Syed B. Ali and M. Raghib Hussain, who were introduced to each other by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Cavium offers processor- and board-level products targeting routers, switches, appliances, storage and servers.

The company went public in May 2007 with about 175 employees. As of 2011, following numerous acquisitions, it had about 850 employees worldwide, of whom about 250 were located at company headquarters in San Jose.

Cavium was acquired by Marvell Technology Group on July 6, 2018.

History

Name change

On June 17, 2011, Cavium Networks, Inc. changed their name to Cavium, Inc.

Acquisitions

Date	Acquired company	Historical product line
August 2008	Star Semiconductor	ARM-based systems-on-chip processors
December 2008	W&W Communications	Video compression software and hardware
December 2009	MontaVista Software	Carrier Grade Linux compliant Linux & embedded systems
January 2011	Celestial Semiconductor	SoCs for digital media applications, including satellite, cable, and Internet TV
February 2011	Wavesat Telecommunications	Semiconductor solutions for carrier and mobile device manufacturersШаблон:Citation needed
July 2014	Xpliant, Inc.	Switching and SDN Specialist
June 2016	QLogic, Inc.	Ethernet and Storage Specialist

Acquisition

In November 2017, Cavium's board of directors agreed to the company's purchase by Marvell Technology Group for $6 billion in cash and stock. The merger was finalized on July 6, 2018.

NSA Interference

On March 23, 2022, Cavium was named as an NSA "enabled" CPU vendor in a PhD thesis titled "Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance". The "enabled" term refers to a process with which a chip vendor has a backdoor introduced into their designs.