AMD Pensando AI NICs
AI NIC family (Pollara 400 at 400 Gbps, Vulcano 800 at 800 Gbps Ethernet) for scale-out inter-GPU communication in AI training and inference clusters, built on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium specification.
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No list price published; AMD routes hardware through authorized distributors and OEMs. Whether a recurring free tier exists is not stated either way.
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- AI compute hardware
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