Broadcom this week unveiled the next generation of its 10 Gigabit Ethernet network interface controller, plus a low-power 10GBase-T PHY.
The new controller can be used in a network interface card, a server LAN-on-motherboard configuration, or a storage adapter. It has two ports on a single chip.
Broadcom touted the chip’s support for simultaneous iSCSI, FCoE and TCP Chimney offload. It also supports Data Center Bridging, PCI-SIG SR-IOV, and embedded virtual bridge for better switching between virtual machines. Plus, it supports the IEEE’s 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet spec to save power.
Also along those lines, Broadcom introduced what it is calling the industry’s lowest-power 40nm 10GBase-T physical-layer transceiver. The transceiver is available with either two or four ports, and Broadcom says the technology and power-saving design bring the operating power below 4 watts per port, lower than designs that use 65nm or 90nm technologies. When traffic is light, the chip can drop power usage to less than 2 watts per port. The chip can transmit 10Gbps signals over 100 meters of Category-6A unshielded twisted pair wiring or Category-7 cables.
Coincidentally, Broadcom this week announced its quarterly and annual earnings. The company’s 2009 revenue was $4.49 billion, down 3.6% from 2008. Net income for 2009 was $65.3 million, or 13 cents per share, compared with 41 cents per share in 2008.
Revenue for the fourth quarter was more impressive, a record 1.34 billion, up 19.2% over the revenue in the fourth quarter of 2008. Meanwhile, the income in the quarter was $59.2 million, which means most of the year’s profit was made in the last three months.
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