RMI Corporation - Product Lines

Product Lines

RMI produces four key product lines:

• XLR - A multicore, multithreading CPU used for network processing. XLR chips have 2 to 8 MIPS CPU cores, which have each been extended to support 4 hardware threads. XLR processors include HyperTransport, PCI-X, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE754 and MIPS-compliant floating point unit per core and optionally 10 Gigabit Ethernet interconnects built in to the CPU.
• XLS - A smaller, lower cost multicore multithreading MIPS-based CPU used for network processing. The XLS family has options with 1 or 2 CPU cores, each with 4 hardware threads; 2 to 8 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces; USB interfaces; and 1 or 2 PCI-E interfaces.
• Alchemy - Originally developed by Alchemy Semiconductor, which was then purchased by AMD, this CPU product line was purchased by RMI in 2006. The Alchemy processor is a low-power MIPS architecture system-on-a-chip with integrated graphics and signal processing, designed for media players and portable video devices.
• Orion - a network interface chip used to translate Gigabit Ethernet data traffic to SONET OC-48 network links and back again, to interface local area networks with wide area network circuits.

RMI processors are used in a number of router, firewall, and switch products sold by other networking equipment vendors, and consumer electronics manufacturers.