Microsoft acquires Fungible for its DPUs

Microsoft has acquired Fungible, a Silicon Valley start-up offering high-efficiency, low-power data processing units (DPUs) designed to transform data centers into composable infrastructure.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s datacenter infrastructure engineering teams and will focus on delivering multiple DPU solutions, network innovation and hardware systems advancements.

Microsoft said the acquisition reflects its commitment to long-term differentiated investments in its datacenter infrastructure.

Fungible has previously described its DPU as the “third socket” in data centers, complementing the CPU and GPU, and delivering significant gains in performance, footprint and cost efficiencies for next-generation, scale-out networking, storage, security, and analytics platforms. The company cites two core innovations that are tightly interwoven: 

• A programmable data-path engine that executes data-centric computations at extremely high speeds, while providing flexibility comparable to general-purpose CPUs. The engine is programmed in C using industry-standard toolchains and is designed to execute many data-path computations concurrently. 
• A new network engine that implements the endpoint of a high-performance TrueFabric that provides deterministic low latency, full cross-section bandwidth, congestion and error control, and high security at any scale (from 100s to 100,000s of nodes). The TrueFabric protocol is fully standards-compliant and interoperable with TCP/IP over Ethernet, ensuring that the data center leaf-spine network can be built with standard Ethernet switches and standard electro-optics and fiber infrastructure. 

Fungible offers two versions of its DPU: 

• Fungible F1 DPU – an 800Gbps processor designed specifically for high performance storage, analytics and security platforms. 
• Fungible S1 DPU – a 200Gbps processor optimized for host-side use cases including bare metal virtualization, storage initiator, NFVi/VNF applications and distributed node security.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/09/microsoft-announces-acquisition-of-fungible-to-accelerate-datacenter-innovation/

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