AMD's brand new Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC, the first UEC-ready AI NIC, has been detailed at Hot Chips 2025.

AMD Adds 25% Performance With Its 400GbE Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC, Ultra Ethernet Consortium-Ready

Last year, AMD introduced its latest networking solution, the Pensando Pollara 400 , which is a NIC developed for AI systems. This NIC is also the industry's first to be UEC or Ultra Ethernet Consortium-Ready. In terms of bandwidth, the 400 Gbps speed matches that of NVIDIA's ConnectX-7 solution, but they also have a higher-end ConnectX-8 solution shipping with newer Blackwell Ultra systems, offering 800GbE speeds.

Some of the main features of Pensando Pollara include:

The Pensando Networking solutions are designed in accordance with AMD's other Data Center solutions, such

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