5G: According to the Gurugram-based telecom firm, the UPF and SmartNIC integration will enable the offloading of real-time packet processing from general-purpose server CPU cores, ensuring optimal resource utilisation and improved network performance.
Xilinx looks to revolutionise data centres Xilinx has announced a new range of data centre products and solutions, including a new family of Alveo SmartNICs, smart world AI video analytics applications, and an accelerated algorithmic trading reference design for sub-microsecond trading.
Demanding and complex applications such as networking and AI analytics or financial trading, require low-latency and real-time performance. Achieving this level of performance has been limited to expensive and lengthy hardware development. However, with these new products and solutions, Xilinx said that it was looking to eliminate the barriers for software developers to quickly create and deploy software-defined, hardware accelerated applications on its Alveo accelerator cards.