The AI Infrastructure Stack
Overview  /  Tier III Physical Data Center  /  Layer 07: Networking
Sub-category 7.3

NICs, DPUs & SmartNICs

The card on each server that handles network offload, RDMA, security, and storage.

Players

Players: Nvidia BlueField / ConnectX NVDA, AMD Pensando AMD, Marvell MRVL, Broadcom AVGO, Intel INTC, Astera Labs ALAB

Analysis coming soon — this page is scaffolding for deeper research into nics, dpus & smartnics.