FMS 2025: MaxLinear Unveils Panther V 450Gb Storage Accelerator for Enterprise and Hyperscale Data Centers

MaxLinear, Inc. announced its next-gen Panther V storage accelerator that delivers ultra-low latency, 450Gb throughput, 12:1 data reduction, and PCIe Gen5 x 16 interface connectivity.

The company will showcase Panther V during the Future of Memory and Storage 2025 (FMS 2025) conference in Santa Clara, CA, August 5-7 and demonstrate the storage accelerator’s performance, efficiency, and scalability for enterprise and hyperscale data centers.

Panther V builds on the Panther III architecture, delivering more than double the throughput while continuing to reduce both capital (CAPEX) and operational (OPEX) expenditures. By offloading compute-intensive data transformation tasks – such as compression, deduplication, encryption, and real-time verification (RTV) – from the CPU to a single hardware-based solution, Panther offers substantial performance gains, storage cost savings, and energy efficiency improvements when compared to traditional software-only, FPGA, and other competitive solutions.

“Panther V is engineered to meet the demands of modern data centers where performance, efficiency, and cost control are paramount,” said Vikas Choudhary, VP, connectivity and storage business, MaxLinear. “With its high throughput and energy efficiency performance, Panther V will empower customers to scale intelligently while reducing infrastructure costs.”

Key Features and Benefits:

• 450Gb Throughput: Delivers over 2x the performance of Panther III, enabling ultra-low latency data processing across file, block, and object storage. Optimized for high-performance computing, hyperscale and hyperconverged architectures, and AI/ML workloads.
• PCIe Gen5 x16 Interface: Unlocks the full bandwidth potential of next-gen server platforms.
• Lower CAPEX and OPEX: Significantly increases effective storage capacity using the same physical footprint. Reduces CPU core requirements for storage infrastructure software, significantly lowers memory bandwidth consumption, and minimizes storage device usage – resulting in substantial savings in hardware, cooling, and energy costs.
• Energy Efficiency: Panther V’s hardware offload architecture dramatically reduces CPU utilization and power consumption, enabling more energy-efficient and sustainable data center operations. Fewer servers and reduced cooling requirements directly translate to lower carbon emissions.
• MaxHash Deduplication: Achieves up to 15:1 data reduction for structured data when combined with Panther V deep compression algorithms, extending effective storage and NVMe drive life, reducing replication costs, and minimizing e-waste.
• Six 9’s Reliability: Built-in end-to-end data protection with Real-Time Verification (RTV), NVMe Protection Information (PI) support, Error Control Coding (ECC) on chip logic and memory, and PCIe Advanced Error Reporting (AER) ensures unmatched data integrity.
• Rich Software Ecosystem: Includes a robust SDK with unified APIs, kernel/user space support, and intelligent load balancing for seamless integration across Linux and FreeBSD environments.

Panther V is purpose-built for deployment across modern data centers – from hyperscale to hyperconverged architectures, and from edge to cloud – where performance, efficiency, and reliability are critical. Its scalable design supports multi-card configurations exceeding 3.2Tb/s, making it the ideal solution for organizations aiming to future-proof their storage infrastructure.

Live Demos at FMS 2025
MaxLinear will showcase 2 live demonstrations of Panther V at the upcoming Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) conference, booth #515, in Santa Clara, CA , August 5-7.

• PantherDirect Demo: This demo showcases Peer-to-Peer Direct Memory Access (P2PDMA) with Panther V cards. By enabling direct data transfers between devices such as storage accelerators, NVMe SSDs, and network cards – bypassing host memory – Panther V significantly reduces system memory bandwidth consumption and congestion. The demo will illustrate how Panther V’s internal DMA engine and on-chip SRAM enable efficient, high-speed data movement, improving overall system performance and energy efficiency.

• Performance Comparison Demo: This demo highlights Panther V’s throughput with PCIe Gen5 x16 capability and will compare its performance to a software-only data storage solution across key metrics including:

  • Throughput
  • CPU Core Utilization
  • Latency
  • Compression Ratio
  • Memory Bandwidth
  • Power Usage