I think the idea is to bring the compute power closer to the storage or NIC devices. At least that is the impression I am getting from their smartNIC/smartssd d

I think the idea is to bring the compute power closer to the storage or NIC devices. At least that is the impression I am getting from their smartNIC/smartssd device. In this case being video streaming in from the NIC, encoding/decoding occurring directly on the NIC. Same to a degree with the bespoke smartssd where if you have some complex encryption, encoding, decoding or data driven application than the processing happens directly on the storage device via the FPGA.