NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit
ARCHIVED 2026-03-18, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20260318_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20260215_rev01
Full text changes — 20260215_rev01 to 20260318_rev01
COLOUR MARKS THE SEVERITY OF A FLAGGED CLAUSE · + AND − MARK ADDED AND REMOVED
| 31 | 31 | The NVIDIA® BlueField® platform ignites unprecedented performance, efficiency, and innovation-powering AI factories, the new class of purpose-built data centers for AI. With its robust compute power and integrated software-defined hardware accelerators for networking, storage, and security, BlueField creates a secure and accelerated infrastructure for any workload in any environment, ushering in a new era of accelerated computing, power efficiency, and AI. |
| 32 | 32 | |
| 33 | 33 | ## News |
| 34 | 34 | |
| 35 | 35 | ### BlueField In the News |
| 36 | 36 | |
| 37 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 Fuels the Next Frontier of AI | |
| 37 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Platform Launches With Broad Industry Adoption | |
| 38 | 38 | |
| 39 | NVIDIA BlueField-4 powers the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, a new class of AI-native data storage infrastructure designed to accelerate and scale gigascale agentic inference. | |
| 39 | NVIDIA STX is a modular AI storage reference design co‑developed with leading providers and built on NVIDIA accelerated compute, networking, and AI software. Learn how it powers NVIDIA BlueField‑4-based STX context memory storage that supercharges agentic AI and AI data infrastructure. | |
| 40 | 40 | |
| 41 | ### Introducing NVIDIA BlueField-4-Powered Inference Context Memory Storage Platform | |
| 41 | ### NVIDIA Brings AI-Powered Cybersecurity to World's Critical Infrastructure | |
| 42 | 42 | |
| 43 | A new class of AI-native storage infrastructure using BlueField to eliminate inference GPU stalls, deliver power efficiency, and enables high-speed KV-sharing enabling inference infrastructure scale. | |
| 43 | Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens, and Xage Security are integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to advance OT cybersecurity, embedding real-time, zero-trust protection directly into industrial infrastructure for safer, more resilient operations. | |
| 44 | 44 | |
| 45 | ### Redefining Secure AI Infrastructure with NVIDIA BlueField Astra for NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 | |
| 45 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 Powers AI-Native Storage Infrastructure for the Next Frontier of AI | |
| 46 | 46 | |
| 47 | Learn how to deliver bare-metal compute instances that maintain stronger isolation and a significantly improved security posture in multi-tenant environments. | |
| 47 | NVIDIA BlueField-4 powers the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, a new class of AI-native data storage infrastructure designed to accelerate and scale gigascale agentic inference. | |
| 48 | 48 | |
| 49 | 49 | ### NVIDIA Launches BlueField-4: The Processor Powering the Operating System of AI Factories |
| 50 | 50 | |
| 51 | Discover how NVIDIA BlueField-4 platform and DOCA™ microservices are powering gigascale AI factories with breakthrough networking, security, and data accelerations. | |
| 51 | Discover how the NVIDIA BlueField-4 platform and DOCA™ microservices are powering gigascale AI factories with breakthrough networking, security, and data accelerations. | |
| 52 | 52 | |
| 53 | 53 | ## Portfolio |
| 54 | 54 | |
| 55 | 55 | ## Explore NVIDIA's Portfolio of BlueField Platforms |
| 56 | 56 | |
| 57 | 57 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU |
| 71 | 71 | Prebuilt, composable microservices run natively on NVIDIA BlueField to accelerate AI factories with networking, cybersecurity, data acceleration, and orchestration. |
| 72 | 72 | |
| 73 | 73 | Platform Technologies |
| 74 | 74 | |
| 75 | 75 | ## BlueField Platform for AI Networking |
| 76 | 76 | |
| 77 | ### Networking for the Era of AI | |
| 77 | ### NVIDIA Context Memory Storage Platform | |
| 78 | 78 | |
| 79 | NVIDIA Ethernet SuperNICs emerge as a new class of network accelerators, purpose-built to supercharge network-intensive, massively distributed AI computing workloads. | |
| 79 | NVIDIA CMX is an AI‑native context tier for long‑context, multi‑turn, and agentic AI inference that is powered by NVIDIA BlueField‑4 and NVIDIA Spectrum‑X™ Ethernet, to extend GPU memory with a shared, pod‑level context tier optimized for ephemeral KV cache. | |
| 80 | 80 | |
| 81 | 81 | ### Advancing the Enterprise AI Factory with NVIDIA BlueField |
| 82 | 82 | |
| 83 | 83 | BlueField-powered cybersecurity and acceleration solutions are now part of the AI Factory Validated Design. |
| 84 | 84 | |
| 85 | 85 | ## Resources |