Altera FPGA AI NICs and SmartNICs are network adapter cards with hardware programmable accelerators and Ethernet connectivity that can accelerate infrastructure applications running on the host CPU.

High Performance Agilex™ FPGA-based SmartNIC Platform providing 2x100GE connectivity designed to support communications and networking workloads, such as 4G/5G Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN), Accelerated Virtual Cell Site Router (vCSR), Cloud-Native Contrail Networking (CN2), 5G User Plane Function (UPF) offload, Professional Media over...

FPGA-based Intel SmartNICs for telecommunications can transform wireless and wireline broadband access networks by providing increased visibility into network traffic at the edge, enabling new services and revenue streams.

The Intel® FPGA SmartNIC N6000-PL Platform is Intel’s 3rd generation SmartNIC providing 2x100 Gbps Ethernet connectivity. It is based on Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA F-Series family built with advanced 10 nm SuperFin technology delivering ~2X better fabric performance per watt compared to competing 7 nm FPGAs.

The N5110A PCIe SmartNIC is a full length PCIe single-slot card offering extreme compute performance and wire speed network switching via an onboard Intel Atom P5900 processor and Intel Stratix 10 FPGA.

The Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N6010/N6011 is a high-performance OEM hardware platform intended for hardware acceleration for mobile 4G and 5G Baseband Units or Distributed Units with two QSFP28 modules. The cards are based on the Intel N6000 and N6001.

Jun 27, 2023 · It has the right memory mixture designed for network functions, with integrated network interface card (NIC) in a small form factor that enables high throughput, low latency, low power/bit for custom networking pipeline.

Oct 19, 2020 · New SmartNIC products based on Intel® Stratix™ 10 FPGAs, Xeon-D processors, Intel Ethernet 800 series network adapters, and new platform architectures such as the Intel® FPGA SmartNIC C5000X platform help accelerate …

Sep 29, 2020 · Intel-VMware collaboration brings Telco, cloud and enterprise robust and validated SmartNIC platforms with proven leadership software and services. This results in higher packet performance for edge nodes and appliances, access to a common set of services, and improved latency SLA opportunities.

Jul 14, 2023 · Smart network interface cards, or smartNICs, are an increasingly popular method of offloading intensive packet processing tasks from servers. The NIC has long been used to connect servers to the Ethernet network.