AMD buys Pensanto for $1.9B - maker of DPUs (100g+ network cards with lots of hardware processing and intelligence)

[mariushm]

ServeTheHome just posted a video explaining why AMD bought this company and what a DPU card is... they've just bough Xilinx and now this company, probably also as a reply to nVidia buying Mellanox which has similar products.

Patrick explains much better than I could ever do in a few paragraphs here, very informative video:

 

 

 

 

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AMD Acquires Pensando for its DPU Future - ServeTheHome

[leadeater]

The stuff around DPUs that interests me the most is actually VMware Project Monterey, the stuff AWS is already doing, and composable infrastructure. Being highly tied in with VMware for a long time that is actually applicable to me without having adopt something totally new from a different vendor while also making a fundamental change to infrastructure architecture.

[Quackers101]

with the likelyhood of buying themselves into AI.

godspeed, amd. don't look at nvidia actually doing something with intel. streamline, fish.

[Kilrah]

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