- RMI Corporation
RMI Corporation, also known as RMI, formerly known as Raza Microelectronics, Inc., is a privately held
Fabless semiconductor company headquartered inCupertino ,California , which specializes in designing CPU chips for specialized, primarily networking applications.History
RMI was founded in 2002 by
Atiq Raza , who had previously founded theNexGen CPU company, which was acquired byAMD in 1996. Atiq Raza was AMD's President and Chief Operating Officer in the late 1990s after the NexGen acquisition. Behrooz Abdi became president and CEO of RMI in November 2007. RMI changed its name from Raza Microelectronics, Inc. to RMI Corporation in December 2007. RMI is not affiliated with Foundries Holdings, LLC, formerly known as Raza Foundries, Inc.RMI internally developed three main product lines ("XLR/XLS" and "Orion") and purchased a fourth from AMD in 2006 ("Alchemy").
Product lines
RMI produces four key product lines:
* XLR - Amulticore ,multithreading CPU used for network processing. XLR chips have 2 to 8 MIPS CPU cores, which have each been extended to support 4 hardware threads. [ [http://www.razamicroelectronics.com/documents/XLR_Family_2001PB_Product_Brief.pdf XLR Family Product Brief] , accessed October 24, 2007] XLR processors includeHyperTransport ,PCI-X ,Gigabit Ethernet , and optionally10 gigabit Ethernet interconnects built in to the CPU. [http://www.razamicroelectronics.com/documents/xlr_xls_psg_A_000.pdf RMI XLR and XLS Processors Product Selection Guide] , accessed October 24, 2007]
* XLS - A smaller, lower cost multicore multithreading MIPS based CPU used for network processing. The XLS family has options with 1 or 2 CPU cores, each with 4 hardware threads; 2 to 8 gigabit ethernet interfaces; USB interfaces; and 1 or 2PCI-E interfaces.
* Alchemy - Originally developed byAlchemy Semiconductor , which was then purchased byAdvanced Micro Devices , this CPU product line was purchased by RMI in 2006.cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=AMD Alchemy processor product line acquired by Raza Microelectronics | date=2006-06-14 | publisher=technologynewsdaily.com | url =http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/3336 | work =TechNews | pages = | accessdate = 2007-07-11 | language = ] The Alchemy processor is a low power usageMIPS architecture CPU with integrated graphics and signal processing, designed for media players and portable video devices. [http://www.razamicroelectronics.com/products_alchemy/au1200_overview.htm RMI Alchemy Au1200 Processor] , accessed October 24, 2007]
* Orion - a network interface chip used to translateGigabit Ethernet data traffic to SONET OC-48 network links and back again, to interface local area networks with wide area network circuits. [http://www.razamicroelectronics.com/documents/Orion_Family_Product_Brief.pdf Orion Family Product Brief] , accessed October 24, 2007]RMI processors are used in a number of
router ,firewall , andswitch products sold by other networking equipment vendors, and consumer electronics manufacturers.References
External links
* [http://www.razamicroelectronics.com/ Corporate website]
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