2025 Market Leader: SmartNICs for AI

Market Leader: NVIDIA

NVIDIA has cemented its brand leadership in the SmartNIC space by integrating its DPU (Data Processing Unit) technologies—like BlueField—with the well-established ConnectX line, enabling customers to offload networking, storage, and security workloads from the CPU.

SmartNICs for AI: Offloads network software processes, analytics, transfer, security, compression, and encryption.