New Ryzen Embedded 5000 Series Processors for Networking Solutions

I've read it over three times, & so far, it looks like a Ryzen 5x00 with official ECC support. No onboard ethernet. No extra PCIe. Slightly lower clocks, same TDP as desktop parts. AM4 socket. Nothing below 65W.

I guess it's just not yet, but AMD is definitely gearing up for something big & exciting with CPU+FPGAs, after their Xilinx acquisition (announced October 2020, completed February 2022). Linux kernel has seen a lot of recent activity: drivers for the CPU<->FPGA XDMA DMA-engine made it into the upcoming 6.3 (https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Xilinx-XDMA-Linux-6.3). There's a new FPGA bus "CDX" that is slated for 6.4 (https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CDX-For-Linux-6.4).

Then there's the LLVM-based eBPF XDP C code to FPGA compiler Nanotube (https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Xilinx-Nanotube-Compiler).

I guess I'll have to hold off on being super-excited for a little bit. That's fine. What's on the horizon looks amazing though, a major potential leap in network performance. Hopefully it also works reasonably well with upcoming CXL technology to boot. There's definitely a potential for disaggregated computing to actually come.

Wonder if Enterprise has perimeter traffic replay to show graphic ballisticgel model of events when defense fails using solution composed from fishnet of these nodes at the boundary. UIX is ChatGPT informant.