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AMD Announces Pensando Salina 400 DPU & Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet NIC
In addition to announcing the EPYC 9005 'Turin' processors and the latest on the AMD Instinct front, Lisa Su at the AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco also announced the AMD Pensando Salina 400 DPU and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet AI NIC.
The AMD Pensando Salina 400 data processing unit (DPU) is designed for hyperscalers and offers 400G networking with dual 400GE PCIe Gen 5 connections, 232 P4 MPU engines, up to 128GB DDR5 memory, and 16 x Arm Neoverse-N1 CPU cores. Also on the networking side, the AMD Pensando Pollara 400 was announced as the first Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) ready AI NIC. It was just last year that the Ultra Ethernet Consortium was started by the likes of AMD, Intel, the Linux Foundation, Meta, HPE, and other organizations.
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