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Quick quote[1] on what a SmartNIC is:

> The Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5010 features an Intel Stratix 10 DX FPGA with integrated high bandwidth memory (HBM) and Intel Ethernet 800 series adapter.

4x100G. Double slot.

There's also a C5000X platform, with I believe only one board out right now, which is again an FPGA based add-on card, 2x25G, and also has an on-card Xeon-D processor.

Just a little reminder here at the end, AMD is still trying to get it's acquisition of the biggest FPGA company on the planet Xilinx to go through. And my general assessment of P4: P4 definitely is a strong contender for a tech which can get these fancy awesome transciever-heavy FPGAs to see more adoption.

[1] https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/intel-announced-two-new...