At the end of March 2025, Achronix scaled back its business to focus on Artificial Intelligence, and with that, they released me and several outstanding network-centric FPGA developers. If you are looking for world-class FPGA talent, please let me know, and I’ll connect you with some very fine people.
As for me, I’m available to assist companies in formulating their SmartNIC or DPU product definition and marketing plans, author technical documentation, craft marketing literature, define markets, and establish routes to market.
Some of my most recent posts have been on “SmartNICs Today,” a somewhat irregular Newsletter I maintain on LinkedIn that often sees over 2,500 page views for new articles. Here are the last five articles posted:
- Part 2: SmartNICs Could be Managed Like Switches – Focusing on the Control Plane Hardware.
- Part 1: SmartNICs Could be Managed Like Switches – The Role of a Generic Flow Table (GFT).
- SuperNIC Explained? Part 2 – What is appears NVIDIA really means when they saw SuperNIC.
- SuperNIC Explained? Part 1 – Infiniband, flits and NVLink
- SmartNIC = (DPU, IPU, NPU) – Here, we discuss what’s in a name, “How about Mug…”
If you wish to learn more, please drop me an email.
Here is the Uncle Dougie – Bash Memorial Show.
Here is an initial draft of the photobook we’re doing.