SuperNIC
An AI-fabric network adapter built to spray packets across paths and reorder them in silicon; its rate is quoted per direction, so normalize before comparing it with bidirectional scale-up figures.
Also written as: SuperNICs
Current numbers
up to 1.6 Tb/sNVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNIC bandwidth (Rubin generation) — double ConnectX-8's 800 Gb/s; BlueField-4 (integrates a CX-9) ships at 800 Gb/s, double BlueField-3
1 per GPUback-end SuperNIC provisioning (8×400G/800G per 8-GPU server = 3.2–6.4 Tb/s/node) + a separate front-end/storage NIC