Cavium

Cavium, Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, that designed multicore processors and networking silicon for enterprise, data center, cloud, and service-provider infrastructure. Its product families included OCTEON multicore MIPS and ARM network and security processors, ThunderX ARM-based server SoCs, Nitrox security processors, LiquidIO intelligent adapters and smart NICs, and the FastLinQ Ethernet and Xpliant switch lines it gained through its 2016 acquisition of QLogic. Cavium was a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: CAVM) before being acquired by Marvell Technology Group in July 2018 for roughly 6 billion US dollars. Its technology now ships as part of Marvell's networking and infrastructure processor portfolio. As a silicon and hardware vendor, Cavium never operated a public developer API program or web API surface.

Cavium is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Semiconductors, Networking, Security, and Processors.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySemiconductorsNetworkingSecurityProcessorsHardwareARMSiliconData CenterAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: cavium
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Cavium
description: 'Cavium, Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California,
  that designed multicore processors and networking silicon for enterprise, data center, cloud, and service-provider infrastructure.
  Its product families included OCTEON multicore MIPS and ARM network and security processors, ThunderX ARM-based server SoCs,
  Nitrox security processors, LiquidIO intelligent adapters and smart NICs, and the FastLinQ Ethernet and Xpliant switch lines
  it gained through its 2016 acquisition of QLogic. Cavium was a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: CAVM) before being acquired
  by Marvell Technology Group in July 2018 for roughly 6 billion US dollars. Its technology now ships as part of Marvell''s
  networking and infrastructure processor portfolio. As a silicon and hardware vendor, Cavium never operated a public developer
  API program or web API surface.'
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x-acquired-by: marvell
x-acquired-date: '2018-07-06'
x-industry: semiconductors
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- Semiconductors
- Networking
- Security
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- ARM
- Silicon
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  date: '2026-07-19'
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