aid: cavium
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cavium.png
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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cavium/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- menlo-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: marvell
x-acquired-date: '2018-07-06'
x-industry: semiconductors
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- Networking
- Security
- Processors
- Hardware
- ARM
- Silicon
- Data Center
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence