# Cavium

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cavium/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Semiconductors, Networking, Security, Processors, Hardware, ARM, Silicon, Data-Center, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cavium/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.