Cisco has announced six new router and switch chips as part of the Silicon One initiative, which it unveiled last year in a major shake-up of its platform and its differentiation in its core market. All the chips are made in 7-nanometer geometry and range from 3.2Tbps to 12.8Tbps of capacity. There are three routing models, the Q200, Q201 and Q202, and three for switching – Q200L, Q201L and Q202L. In all cases, all the silicon is consolidated into a single die, replacing up to 10 components in some competitors’ chips and delivering performance and power efficiencies as a result, said Cisco. The high end Q200 and Q200L share the same footprint so customers can use the same appliance design…