<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cavium.com&#x2F;OCTEON-III_CN7XXX.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cavium.com&#x2F;OCTEON-III_CN7XXX.html</a><p>It&#x27;s a multi-core MIPS64 processor with PCI, USB, and do on. Remember that MIPS has been used in everything from embedded to SGI Origin supercomputers. Quite general purpose. Cavium&#x27;s addition is SOC, lower power, and accelerators.<p>Regarding ShenWei, it was used in supercomputers. It&#x27;s probably real. What jumped out is that it&#x27;s probably stolen IP from Alpha CPU and had high watts. So, not as power-efficient or legal as they&#x27;d like was my guesss.<p>Re Tilera<p>I read the MIT RAW Workstation papers where all that began. ;) Yeah, it&#x27;s pretty cool but that&#x27;s the one that&#x27;s limited purpose. It&#x27;s like an overlap between vector processors, FPGA&#x27;s, and multicores. I dont know who all uses them but I did find a 100Gbps network tap and NIDS that used 3 Tileras for its muscle.