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		AceJohnny2 on Oct 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pushing the Limits of Kernel Networking > I'm not sure what Cisco uses. Probably PowerPC, though I hear Freescale's testing out ARM cores. http://www.freescale.com/applications/networking:IFNWNTWRKNG...

placatedmayhem on Oct 2, 2015 [–]

Nexus uses x86, Celerons specifically (at least all of them I'm aware of). You can see it if you watch one boot over serial. It's in the example text from this upgrade notice: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nex...

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