Napatech’s Altera Programmable Network Cards Provide Scale-Out Efficiency for d-Matrix Artificial Intelligence Inferencing

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – May 19, 2025 – Napatech™ (OSLO: NAPA.OL), a leading provider of Programmable Network Interface Cards (NICs) used in data centers, today disclosed a design win with d-Matrix, the creator of Corsair™, the world’s most efficient Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing platform used for inferencing in datacenters.

Inferencing is the cornerstone of artificial intelligence. It transforms the knowledge from trained models to create predictions, decisions, and insights that are practical and beneficial in real-world applications.

“The response to an early sample of a limitless number of AI use-cases has captivated the imagination of users across a wide array of industries,” said Lars Boilesen, Chief Executive Officer at Napatech. “However, the current trajectory of AI computing is unsustainable. The d-Matrix Corsair solution rebalances the data center by changing the cost and scalability in a sustainable way that makes generative AI commercially viable for the masses.”

Napatech’s solution is a breakthrough design that targets one of the most transformative use cases for programmable NICs, known as AI infrastructure. AI is changing the way data centers are built, including a significant increase in the number of servers deployed to meet the insatiable demand for new use cases. AI Infrastructure is the method by which the servers are connected, forming a massive, distributed neural network comprised of a cluster of AI servers. AI Infrastructure requires a previously unseen combination of deterministic, low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnects, with programmability to rapidly adapt to evolving technology standards.

“Emerging data center AI deployments will not be possible without innovations in server-to-network connectivity to complement the critical innovations within the AI inference processing,” said Baron Fung, Senior Director at Dell’Oro Group.

Napatech’s solution is powered by the N3070X programmable AI NIC, using Altera’s high-performance Agilex™ 7 FPGAs. Disclosed in April 2024 and specified along with Altera and a tier-1 global server manufacturer, the product is available today.

“Napatech’s N3070X programmable AI NIC is a purpose-built solution based on Altera’s Connectivity Common Platform and inspired by existing hyperscale solutions, “said Mike Fitton, Vice President and General Manager of Vertical Markets at Altera. “We have focused our solutions on the high-growth AI segments in the data center, where programmable NICs are ideally suited to meet the most challenging and dynamic requirements. The AI NIC is a newer segment of the NIC market requiring deterministic, low-latency, and high-bandwidth capabilities. FPGAs bring an additional layer of value, offloading data engineering capabilities from the compute, allowing the xPU to focus simply on compute analytics.”

“Napatech’s Altera programmable NIC enables d-Matrix to deliver efficient ultra-low latency distributed inference across multiple servers,” said Sree Ganesen, Vice President of Product at d-Matrix. “Our customers get the benefit of deploying an industry-standard Ethernet-based scale-out solution while taking advantage of Corsair’s blazing fast inference speeds.”

About Napatech
Napatech is the leading supplier of programmable NICs, including SmartNICs and IPUs, used in cloud, enterprise, and telecom data centers. Through commercial-grade software suites integrated with high-performance hardware, Napatech accelerates network infrastructure, security, and storage workloads to deliver best-in-class system-level performance while maximizing the availability of server compute resources for applications, services, and revenue. Additional information is available at www.napatech.com.

About d-Matrix
d-Matrix advances compute for modern AI workloads and is a pioneer in Digital In-Memory Computing (DIMC) solutions that solve limitations on GenAI inference acceleration. d-Matrix creates flexible solutions for inference at scale using innovative circuits and packaging techniques, a chiplet-based DIMC architecture, interconnect fabric, and hardware-software codesign. Founded in 2019, the company is backed by top investors and strategic partners including Playground Global, M12 (Microsoft Venture Fund), Temasek, Triatomic Capital, SK Hynix, Nautilus Venture Partners, Marvell Technology and Entrada Ventures.

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