Silicon Advantage

RMI’s advanced processors can deliver functionality, performance and cost that differentiate us from competitors across a broad range of markets and applications. We believe we accomplish this by tight integration of key technologies and an innovative architecture, including our power-optimized processor core and SoC design, our thread processing technology, our on-chip fast messaging network, and the integration of various acceleration and security engines including; autonomous networking acceleration engine, security encryption engines, compression/decompression engines and the media acceleration engine. The following elements are the key technologies and architectural features of our processor solutions.

• Very Low Power Processor Core and SoC Design

• Thread Processor Technology

• Fast Messaging Network Technology
• Autonomous Networking Accelerators and Security and Compression Engines

Thread Processor Technology

Our thread processing technology allows us to integrate four tightly integrated hardware threads, each thread acting as a virtual central processing unit (vCPU™), in a single processor core.  Unlike single-threaded designs, our architecture is well suited for network-oriented processing environment and is capable of significantly reducing the delays associated with memory latency and increases performance.  Multi-threading technology enables other threads to continue to efficiently process instructions when one thread becomes stalled while waiting for memory data to return. As a result of implementing thread processor technology, our processors are capable of much higher throughput as well as better execution of of software coding versus traditional single thread processing technology by the use of simultaneous operations in multi-thread technology.