Netronome is a privately held fabless semiconductor company specializing in the design of network flow processors used for intelligent flow processing in network and communications devices, such as switches, routers and cyber security applications.
Netronome was founded in 2003 by Niel Viljoen, David Wells and Johann Tönsing, who had all previously worked for Marconi.
Between February 2011 and 2013, Howard Bubb stepped in as Chief Executive Officer.
In March 2010, Netronome announced it began shipping the Network Flow Processor (NFP–3240), specifically designed for tight coupling with x86 architectures.
[1] In January 2016, Netronome announced its Agilio family of server-based networking solutions.