NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Mountain View, California, designs, develops and markets high performance knowledge-based processors for a variety of advanced wireline and mobile wireless networking systems, such as routers, switches, wireless infrastructure equipment, network security appliances, network access equipment and networked storage devices.

NetLogic Microsystems’ NETL7™ knowledge-based processor provide hardware acceleration for Kaspersky Lab’s SafeStream® anti-malware database by a factor of over 100X compared to a software-based solution.

“We’re excited about our collaboration with Kaspersky Lab and RMI, both leaders in their respective markets, to accelerate the increasingly compute and memory-bandwidth intensive task of performing full content inspection at wire speeds,” said Kelvin Khoo, director of strategic marketing at NetLogic Microsystems.