On March 31, one of the most influential industry events in the field of global integrated circuits – 2026 International IC Exhibition and Conference (International IC & Component Exhibition and Conference, abbreviated as: IIC was held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pudong, Shanghai, with the core positioning of “Technology Enabling Industry, Ecological Linking Value”. Resnics Technology CEO Mr. Huang was invited to attend this event, and in the main forum delivered a keynote speech around the “data center third chip: how to reconfigure the arithmetic infrastructure of the DPU” to start the depth of the sharing, combined with the industry trends and their own practice, interpretation of the DPU industry development opportunities and technological breakthroughs in the direction.
Data Center: The Third Chip in the Data Center: How DPUs Can Reimagine Your Computing Infrastructure
Yiren Ronnie Huang pointed out in his speech that with the explosive growth of the AI big model industry and the comprehensive implementation of the national strategy of “East counts, West counts”, data centers are facing unprecedented arithmetic bottlenecks, and the traditional arithmetic architecture is difficult to adapt to the core needs of massive data processing and efficient arithmetic scheduling. In this context, as the third core chip of data center after CPU and GPU, DPU (Data Processing Unit) is moving from the backstage to the frontstage, which has highly flexible programmability, and its functions can be extended to network, storage, security and other fields through software definition, which can significantly improve the operational performance of the data center and arithmetic efficiency, and can effectively reduce operational costs, and it has become the most important tool for reconfiguration of arithmetic power. The key engine for reconfiguring the underlying logic of the infrastructure and cracking the bottleneck of computing power.
Talking about the development of DPU, Yiren Ronnie Huang shared that in 2011, he proposed the concept of converged advanced computing network in Silicon Valley. Since Microsoft launched the first generation of smart network card project in 2013, AWS, Ali, Google, Intel, NVIDIA and other top global cloud vendors and chip giants have entered the DPU smart network card, to promote the DPU from the technical conception of the rapid to the industry’s practical applications, officially stepped into the technology iteration and the market outbreak of the fast lane, the product form is also from a single network acceleration function, and gradually upgraded to the full stack of infrastructure The processor capability covers all aspects of the data center’s core requirements.
In terms of actual experience in DPU projects, Yiren Ronnie Huang further introduced that he had led a team in the United States to successfully land a million-piece storage DPU chip project in an international head of the Internet giant, accumulating the world’s leading large-scale R&D and industrialization experience. Focusing on the domestic market, resnics precisely laid out the field of Xinchuang, in June 2023 in the Xinchuang cloud officially on-line independent research and development of the Stargate-N1025 intelligent network card, the product after nearly three years of actual operation test, has always remained stable and reliable, fully verified the company’s technological strength and the overall maturity of the product for the large-scale application of independently controllable DPUs. The company has also established a solid foundation for the large-scale application of self-contained DPUs.
Yiren Ronnie Huang said that since its establishment in 2020, Resnics Technology has always been deeply committed to various core technology areas of DPU, and has set up a senior top technology team. The company’s development direction is highly compatible with the strategic deployment of independent control, deeply involved in the development of national industry standards for DPUs, helping to upgrade the arithmetic architecture of national data centers, and injecting a strong impetus for the development of the independent control chip industry.