ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,231, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Graphics processing unit with network interfaces" was invented by Uri Elzur (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a first graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising at least one integrated network interface controller (NIC), wherein a data plane of the at least one integrated NIC is configured by a particular entity. In some examples, the data plane of the at least one integrated NIC is configured by the particular entity as a control plane but the first GPU and a central processing unit (CPU) are prevented from ...