Intel is betting that future data-center operations will depend on increasingly powerful servers running ASIC-based, programable CPUs, and its wager rides on the development of infrastructure processing units (IPU), which are Intel’s programmable networking devices designed to reduce overhead and free up performance for CPUs. Intel is among a growing number of vendors – including Nvidia, AWS and AMD – working to build smartNICs and DPUs to support software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage and security services designed for rapid deployment in edge, colocation, or service-provider networks.

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