BlueField
NVIDIA's DPU line, terminating tenant networking, encryption, microsegmentation, and storage initiation in hardware at the host edge — an enforcement point bought at server-spec time or never had.
Current numbers
64-coreBlueField-4 Arm Neoverse V2 CPU: 64B transistors (HPCwire), ~6× BF-3 compute; 128 GB LPDDR5; PCIe Gen6
800 Gb/sBlueField-4 DPU (~6x BlueField-3 compute, announced Oct 2025; the Vera-based STX storage processor is a separate profile), advertised connectivity