AMD is looking to enhance AI networking and infrastructure with two new products, the Pensando Salina 400 DPU and the Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC. Building to up the efficiency of AI networking and enabling them to grow; the new chips are AMD's way of addressing the growing demands of hype scalers and organizations seeking to optimize their AI and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. It can handle the increasingly complex data flows involved in AI infrastructure, increasing how well both CPUs and accelerators perform.
The AMD Pensando Salina 400 DPU (Data Processing Units) is the third generation of the chips and has major performance improvements with double the performance and bandwidth of its last iteration. That helps it handle massive AI data loads, transfer and the processing speeds necessary for high-efficiency businesses. The Salina 400 DPU manages everything from software-defined networking (SDN), firewalls, and encryption to load balancing and network address translation (NAT). It also helps with storage offloading to free up CPU resources.
