Pixelfusion said last year that it had decided to quit the graphics chip business. Beese took over as CEO after the departure of two directors and the decision to change the focus of the company. Pixelfusion originally set out as an IP supplier but decided to produce its own implementations as a fabless semiconductor vendor. We looked at which customer set would find parallel processing to be a compelling solution. We felt the outstanding ability of the company was in parallel processing.
Network processing is such a strong fit with that.
Van Cuylenburg said the full processor would be a relatively large chip in its own right. Each processor has its own area of dedicated memory to hold address tables and other data. The power consumption and board area savings will be way ahead of what anyone else can offer. Van Cuylenburg said the parallel nature of the architecture would help maintain speed for simple tasks if certain packets need more complex processing. IP packet forwarding will not be held up because another packet needs in-depth study.