#CHIPS: "100-Gbit Ethernet Finds Single-Chip Solution"

Broadcom aims to spread 100 gigabit per second Ethernet everywhere with a single-chip solution for line card applications, rather than the half-dozen chips and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) needed to implement 100-bit Ethernet today. R. Colin Johnson


Server Ethernet ports running at 100 gigabits per second will grow at a rate of 170 percent over the next four years. Source: Infonetics

Here is what EETimes says about 100Gbit Ethernet: Broadcom Corp. announced its fourth-generation Ethernet network processor, which it claims is the industry's first chip to use massive parallelism by virtue of its 64 packet-processing cores running at one gigahertz. Providing full-duplex 100Gbit per second performance, it can also be configured to provide a dozen 10-Gbit channels.
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