Innovium, a start-up based in San Jose, California, raised $170 million for its switching silicon solutions cloud and edge data centers.
The new funding round included investments from Premji Invest, DFJ Growth, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, and multiple strategic investors, along with existing investors including Greylock, Capricorn, WRVI, Qualcomm Ventures, Redline, S-Cubed Capital and DAG
. Innovium said this latest funding makes it the first network silicon company to achieve billion-dollar valuation “unicorn” status.
Earlier this year, Innovium unveiled its TERALYNX 8 silicon boasting 25.6Tbps switch with 112G SerDes
In addition, Innovium noted the following milestones during 1H 2020:
- Continued volume production ramp of TERALYNX 7
- Ramping TERALYNX 5 shipments for ToR, Edge & 5G customer designs
- Revenue growth of over 5x in 1H 2020 vs 1H 2019
- Achieved over 20% market share in 50G WW SerDes shipments and emerged as the only credible silicon diversity option [1]
- Wins, deployments and trials at majority of top 25 Cloud customers in the world
“We are delighted at the strong adoption at leading OEM, Cloud and ODM customers for our TERALYNX® family, which resulted in over 20% market share for 50G SerDes switch silicon in our first year of shipments. This additional funding, achieved despite ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, validates our vision, execution and momentum in a multi-billion secular high-growth market,” said Rajiv Khemani, Co-founder and CEO of Innovium.
“Data centers are expected to see secular long-term expansion from Cloud, 5G, AI and remote-work applications. Innovative TERALYNX switch silicon products from Innovium have already been adopted by world’s leading hyperscale Cloud providers and leading OEMs including Cisco. We are excited to partner with Innovium for its roadmap innovation and help accelerate go-to-market ramp up,” said TK Kurien, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Premji Invest.
Innovium pushes switching silicon to 25.6 Tbps with support for 112G PAM4
Innovium unveiled its TERALYNX 8 networking switch silicon featuring a massive 25.6 Tbps capacity and support for 112G PAM4 SerDes I/O. This next-generation TERALYNX 8 design features deep programmability, the largest on-chip buffers, and advanced telemetry capabilities.
Innovium’s TERALYNX 8 switch, which is aimed at hyperscale data centers and which is expected to sample in the second half of 2020, could be used for highly compact, highest port-density single-chip switches for 100G to 800G configurations, including 1RU, 32 x 800G switch. The silicon will be delivered in a single 7nm die fabricated by TSMC.
Innovium confirmed that its current generation, 12.7 Tbps switching silicon is already being used by numerous commercial customers, including some of the biggest cloud provider networks.
Some TERALYNX 8 highlights
- 112G SerDes IO with best economics for next-generation switches
- Up to 256 long-reach (LR) 112G PAM4 SerDes to enable switch configurations such as 32 x 800G, 64 x 400G, 128 x 200 and 256 x 100G
- Enables industry’s most compact 32 x 800G (25.6 Tbps) switch in 1RU form factor
- Enables a range of connectivity options, including 10/25/50/100/200/400 GbE
- Range of pin-compatible SKU options, including 25.6 Tbps, 12.8 Tbps and 8Tbps
- Largest on-chip buffer of 170 MB for a data-center switch
- Highest radix with 256 ports to help flatten network tiers
- INNOFLEX programmable forwarding pipeline offers unmatched flexibility and feature-set
- Enhanced forwarding and ACL table scales
- Robust RoCE, PFC and rich QoS necessary for distributed storage, HPC and AI applications
- FLASHLIGHT™ v3 telemetry and analytics solves toughest troubleshooting problems
- Hardware driven in-band and streaming telemetry available at line-rate
- Additional innovations for deep analytics correlated to applications
- Unique predictive and actionable information versus reactive data overload seen in alternative switch providers
- Industry’s most scalable and fully compatible product line from 1 to 25.6T
- Full SW and architecture compatibility with TERALYNX 5 & TERALYNX 7