Fulcrum Microsystems, a ten year-old Caltech spin-out, has come up with an architecture for switch ICs used in data centres which can deliver one billion packets a second.
Fulcrum’s founder and COO, Mike Zeile, said that its Focal Point FM6000 products, which it calls Alta, deliver the highest port density (72 10G Ethernet ports), the lowest latency (300ns router), with the most power efficiency (<1W port) of anyone in the industry.
What makes Fulcrum unique, said Zeile, is that its system uses a shared memory architecture to deliver one billion packets per second with a latency of 300ns.
Alta will become available in Q2.
Fulcrum is the No.1 supplier of switch silicon to the data centre, knocking Broadcom into second place.
The company uses TSMC for foundry, Kyocera for substrates and Amkor for packaging.