The DPU is not an entirely novel concept: the architecture evolved from the Smart Network Interface Controller (SmartNIC) that began to appear in servers several years ago. Rather than attempting to ...

Cisco on Friday announced the nPower X1, a purpose-built network processing unit (NPU) for software-defined networks (SDN) and for the future network known as the Internet of Things (or Internet ...

CPU performance certainly has a role to play in network throughput. Especially at the high end (gigabit), it is possible to saturate a CPU with network traffic.

Boston-based research company The Yankee Group has released a report that says network processors--chips designed to help identify and route data over a computer network--have made significant ...

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Planning to ship the Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) ... In order to offer higher computer performance, Intel decided to create a new format for storing numeric values.