Intel® FPGA SmartNIC
Intel FPGA SmartNICs are network adapter cards with hardware programmable accelerators and Ethernet connectivity that can accelerate infrastructure applications running on the host CPU.
Intel® FPGA SmartNIC
Intel partners with industry leading acceleration function developers, platform providers, server OEMs, and system integrators to deliver complete end-to-end acceleration solutions.
Accelerator Solutions
Intel® FPGA partner pre-designed accelerator solutions seamlessly integrate into common libraries, software frameworks, and your custom software applications. All you need to do is select a platform, identify a workload you want to accelerate, and let our partners take the effort out of your design.
Algo-Logic Systems
Algo-Logic Systems builds FPGA-accelerated Gateware Defined Networking* (GDN) solutions that achieve high throughput with minimal power and sub-microsecond latency. Algo-Logic Systems provides pre-built intellectual property (IP) cores and full turn-key solutions that map logic into FPGA products for three main industries—finance and high-frequency trading, data centers, and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
Altiostar
Altiostar provides a 5G-ready virtualized radio access network (RAN) software solution that supports open interfaces and disaggregates the hardware from the software to build an open multi-vendor web-scale network. This solution support macro and small cells, indoor and outdoor, enabling interference management, carrier aggregation and dual reception to improve the efficiency of the network and enhances the quality of experience for the user while providing broadband speeds. Operators can add intelligence, quickly adapt the software for different services, and automate operations to rapidly scale the network.
Benu Networks
Benu Networks is a leading software and solutions provider, simplifying the industry’s most complex edge networks. With a comprehensive set of products and innovative solutions coupled with over a decade in the industry, Benu Networks delivers solutions to instantly transform legacy networks, elastically manage services, and carve the path to 5G.
CAST
CAST provides a broad line of intellectual property (IP) cores and accelerator functions. Its IP cores product line includes 8 bit, 16 bit, and 32 bit processors, peripherals, buses, network interfaces, communications devices, compression, and encryption functions. CAST also offers accelerator functions for data and video compression. Established in 1993 with a focus on making IP cores practical and affordable for mainstream designers, the company has developed a reputation for high-quality products, simple licensing, and responsive technical support.
CTAccel Ltd.
CTAccel Limited was formed in 2016 by a team of FPGA researchers and engineers, most of them had more than 10 years of FPGA development experience. By leveraging FPGA-based computing technology, CTAccel Image Processing Accelerator (CIP) with Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel® FPGA PAC) enables our data center customers to achieve high throughput, low, and deterministic latency image processing. The image processing capabilities supported by CIP include jpeg codec, webp encode, lepton codec, and resizing/crop. These functions are widely used in thumbnail generation, image transcoding, and lossless image compression, which are seamlessly integrated into most used applications in data centers.
F5
F5 powers applications from development through their entire lifecycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our customers—enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences.
HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Our technology products, services, and engineering are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. With a worldwide network of R&D, innovation labs, and delivery centers, and 143,000+ ‘Ideapreneurs’ working in 44 countries, HCL offers an integrated portfolio of products, solutions, services, and IP built around digital, IoT, cloud, automation, cybersecurity, analytics, infrastructure management, and engineering services.
Juniper networks
Juniper Networks simplifies the complexities of networking with products, solutions, and services in the cloud era to transform the way we connect, work, and live. We remove the traditional constraints of networking to enable our customers and partners to deliver automated, scalable, and secure networks that connect the world.
Megh Computing, Inc.
Megh Computing delivers a scalable efficient platform for Real Time Analytics using FPGA-as-a-Service in the Cloud. Our software solution uses Intel FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) based accelerators to deliver better performance at lower latencies. Megh's products include Video Analytics Solution and Text Analytics Solution using the following software components for deployment on Public, Private or Edge Cloud: - Sira Accelerator Function Units (AFUs) for inline processing of streaming data and offload processing of compute intensive Machine Learning / Deep Learning algorithms. - Arka Runtime to manage the FPGAs and expose Accelerator Functions-as-a-Service via high level APIs for integration with the applications. Megh will provide the services to enable customers to deploy their applications and benefit from the increased performance and lower latencies of an FPGA accelerated platform.
Myrtle.ai
Myrtle.ai optimizes workloads for recurrent neural networks (RNN), such as speech transcription, machine translation, and natural language processing for deployment on Intel® FPGAs. Emerging machine learning workloads need tightly coupled hardware and software solutions to meet stringent latency, cost, and power requirements. The heart of these accelerators harnesses Myrtle’s proprietary, performant, and highly efficient MAU cores. These cores can be deployed immediately in the world’s most popular cloud infrastructure.
Napatech
Napatech is the leading supplier of Smart Network Interface Card (SmartNIC) and Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) solutions used in cloud, enterprise, and telecom data centers. Through commercial-grade software suites integrated with high-performance hardware, Napatech accelerates network infrastructure and security workloads to deliver best-in-class system-level performance while maximizing the availability of server compute resources for applications and services.
Vcinity
Intel® Partner Alliance member Vcinity enables hybrid and multi-cloud applications secure, real-time access to data anywhere to flexibly accelerate time to insights and business outcomes across your organization. Vcinity deploys on Intel® FPGA SmartNICs as well as Intel® Xeon® D processors, offering a seamless edge-to-cloud data strategy.
Platform Providers
The following platform providers support acceleration solutions based on Intel® FPGAs.
Inventec Data Center Solutions
Inventec Data Center Solutions (Inventec Enterprise Business Group, Inventec EBG) was established in 1998 and has been focusing on the design and manufacturing of server systems in Inventec Corporation. Over decades, Inventec EBG has been the key server system supplier of the global branding clients.
Silicom
Silicom is a leading provider of FPGA-based high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions for original equipment manufacturer (OEM) server-based systems and cloud-related providers.
Wistron NeWeb Corp.
Wistron NeWeb Corporation (WNC), established in 1996, specializes in the design, development, and manufacturing of cutting-edge communications products. For years, WNC has developed technologies in the fields of network communications, network infrastructure, smart home, and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and has close relationships with many of the world’s largest companies.
Server OEMs
The following leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) server providers choose FPGA-based acceleration cards from Intel.
Dell EMC
Dell EMC provides essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform Information Technology, and protect their most important asset, information.
“Dell EMC continues to be committed to delivering technology that helps our customers transform their business and Information Technology. With this collaboration, Dell EMC and Intel are combining a reliable platform with an emerging software ecosystem that provides a new technology capability for customers to unlock their business potential.”
—Brian Payne, vice president, Cloud Product Management, Dell EMC
Fujitsu
Fujitsu delivers total solutions in the field of information and communications technology. Along with multifaceted services provision, Fujitsu’s comprehensive business encompasses the development, manufacture, sales, and maintenance of the cutting-edge, high-quality products and electronic devices that make these services possible.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Intel® FPGAs enrich the HPE portfolio of technologies, partners, and services that enable transformative Information Technology solutions. No other hardware solution provides purpose-built acceleration across so many workloads with the flexibility to easily switch between workloads and upgrade capabilities over time.
“HPE offers customers versatile and flexible solutions to support dynamic enterprise and Information Technology needs. Through our collaboration with Intel, we are launching the latest field-programmable gate array technologies to accelerate AI, simulation, data analytics, compression, encryption, and other emerging workloads, to unleash valuable business insight.”
—Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager, HPC and AI Group, HPE
Read blog: Why FPGAs are the versatile accelerator
Inspur
Inspur is a leading data center, cloud, and AI computing total solutions provider, fully engaged in the development of AI infrastructures on four layers, including computing platform, management and performance suite, optimized deep learning frameworks, and application acceleration to deliver end-to-end, agile, cost-efficient, and optimized AI solutions for its industry customers.
"As the world's market leader in providing AI computing solutions, Inspur is uniquely positioned to help further advance this revolutionary technology that is driving innovation across a broad range of industries and numerous enterprises. Through in-depth collaboration with Intel, we will work together to deliver customers a value proposition around AI that provides unmatched AI computing performance and provides the scalability to support continued growth and profitability." -- Jun Liu, GM of Inspur AI&HPC.
Kontron
Kontron designs hardware for the software-defined world. Service providers and enterprise clients around the globe collaborate with Kontron and its ISV and channel partners to deploy new services with greater speed, confidence, and operational efficiency. Kontron’s portfolio includes OEM hardware and SYMKLOUD open infrastructure platforms dedicated to the deployment of virtual services using software-defined networks (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). For more information, visit Kontron Cloud Systems.
Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT)
Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) is a global data center solution provider. We combine the efficiency of hyperscale hardware with infrastructure software from a diversity of industry leaders to solve next-generation data center design and operation challenges. QCT serves cloud service providers, telecoms, and enterprises running public, hybrid, and private clouds.
Product lines include hyper-converged and software-defined data center solutions as well as servers, storage, switches, integrated racks with a diverse ecosystem of hardware component and software partners. QCT designs, manufactures, integrates, and services cutting edge offerings via its own global network. The parent of QCT is Quanta Computer, Inc., a Fortune Global 500 corporation.
Supermicro
As a first-to-market innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology, Supermicro provides a broad portfolio of workload-optimized advanced server solutions for data center, cloud computing, enterprise IT, Hadoop/big data, high-performance computing (HPC), and embedded systems worldwide. By fully supporting Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Cards, Supermicro offers customers another tool that can be adopted to help accelerate specialized compute workloads in their data centers.
System Integrators
The following system integrators specialize in bringing together component subsystems into a whole and ensuring those subsystems function together.
Colfax International
Colfax International is a leading provider of innovative and expertly engineered workstations, servers, clusters, storage, and personal supercomputing solutions. Colfax International is uniquely positioned to offer the broadest spectrum of high-performance computing solutions, all of them completely customizable to meet your needs. Ready-to-go Colfax HPC solutions deliver significant price/performance advantages, and increased IT agility, which accelerates your business and research outcomes.
HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Our technology products, services, and engineering are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. With a worldwide network of R&D, innovation labs, and delivery centers, and 143,000+ ‘Ideapreneurs’ working in 44 countries, HCL offers an integrated portfolio of products, solutions, services, and IP built around digital, IoT, cloud, automation, cybersecurity, analytics, infrastructure management, and engineering services.
Insight Enterprises Inc.
Insight Enterprises Inc. is an Arizona-based publicly traded global technology company that focuses on business-to-business and information technology capabilities for enterprises. The company is listed on the Forture 500 and has offices in 20 countries with operations in 200 countries and territories.
Macnica
Macnica is a global leader in supplying semiconductors, electronic components, network equipment, software products, and various services to customers worldwide. Macnica serves the electronics and enterprise Information Technology markets. In addition to global supply chain logistics in Japan, China, Asia, North America, South America, and Europe, Macnica offers world-class technical support to its customers.
Silicom
Silicom is a leading provider of FPGA-based high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions for OEM server-based systems and cloud-related providers.
World Wide Technology, Inc.
The WWT Advanced Technology Center (ATC) is a collaborative ecosystem to design, build, educate, demonstrate, and deploy innovative technology products and integrated architectural solutions. The ATC serves customers, partners, and employees around the globe. At the ATC, WWT partners collaborate with agency stakeholders in an agnostic environment to achieve an AI-based solution. And because they’re powered by leading-edge Intel® processors, FPGAs, and optimized frameworks, solutions are optimized for high performance and security.