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The Little Card That Gave the CPU Its Job Back
AMD Pensando made a specialized processor for the invisible chores that steal time from expensive CPUs and GPUs. The wager turned a repeat Cisco founding team, roughly $313 million in funding and one well-timed piece of silicon into a $1.9 billion chapter of AMD's data-center strategy.
Chelsio Bet the CPU Was the Bottleneck - Now Its 400Gb Cards Want Into the AI Rack
For two decades, Chelsio has sold a stubbornly practical idea: the network card should do more of the networking. Its seventh-generation platform now carries that bet into 400Gb Ethernet, GPU clusters and a market crowded with much larger chip companies.
Eriko Nurvitadhi Is Fixing the Expensive Pause Between GPUs
The AI boom bought more GPUs. Eriko Nurvitadhi is working on the less glamorous problem: keeping those expensive machines fed, connected and busy.
MangoBoost Wants to Stop Your Million-Dollar GPUs From Waiting
The four-year-old semiconductor startup began with a card that takes chores away from CPUs. Now it is selling the whole kitchen - silicon, storage, servers and software - to make AI infrastructure cheaper to run and harder to strand.