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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.
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.