Cranberry-based computer chip company
Netronome is marketing its high speed advanced network processors starting this month, paving the way for major company growth, hiring and a new era in computing.
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NFP-3240, one of the highest performance processors on the market today, has been four years in the making and packs a lot of power into a small device. The technology will catapult the industry in improved speed, capacity, intelligence and security, says Jarrod Siket, senior vice president of sales and marketing.
Netronome's processor has 40 cores (a typical home computer has one or two cores of computing power and other high end processors run at 16) and is capable of processing 56 billion instructions per second. The products are used in the switching and routing products that make up the business and service provider networks. Their target customers are among the largest designers of telecommunications equipment in the world such as Cisco, Huawei, Juniper, Nokia and Siemens.
"Our excitement is anchored in the fact that there's going to be so many new applications and services that we've never seen before because we've created an environment for them to exist," he says. "To have this processing power in a very little footprint, the size of a postage stamp, allows you to do some very significant things."
The launch of the first processors is just the beginning of dramatic growth projected at Netronome, which employs 100, 40 in Cranberry. The firm has R&D centers in Cranberry Boxborough, MA and Santa Clara, CA. The startup's sales have grown 511% in 2009 with existing products, and revenues in 2010 are expected to more than double, says Siket. As a result, Netronome is actively recruiting and hiring across the board: software and hardware engineering, sales and marketing.
"We are pleased that the companies designing-in the NFP-3240 are among the world's largest network equipment manufacturers," said Niel Viljoen, founder and CEO of Netronome. "Netronome is in its third year of record revenues and as the market for network flow processors continues to expand, we expect our growth to accelerate."
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Deb SmitSource: Jarrod Siket, Netronome
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