Intel’s white paper introduces the Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) as a transformative innovation for cloud service providers. IPUs offload infrastructure tasks—like networking, storage, and security—from CPUs, improving performance, isolation, and profitability. Unlike SmartNICs, IPUs offer full stack offloading and hardware-enforced control. With DevOps, microservices, and virtualization driving digital transformation, IPUs enable CSPs to scale efficiently, host more services per machine, and better monetize compute resources. Intel’s IPU architecture, combining Stratix FPGAs and Xeon processors, supports flexible, high-performance infrastructure management for the digital business era.

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