Nvidia also introduced BlueField 4, a next-generation processor that acts as the operating system for AI factories. It delivers 800Gbit/sec of throughput, double the throughput of its predecessor BlueField 3, and six times more compute than BlueField 3.
BlueField 4 combines Arm-based CPUs with the ConnectX-9 SuperNIC to accelerate storage, networking, and security across AI infrastructure. In a briefing with journalists on Monday, Dion Harris, a senior director of AI platforms at Nvidia, said BlueField 4 is “designed to power the operating system of AI factories” and will deliver six times more compute compared to its predecessor BlueField 3.
That’s because BlueField 4 received a replacement CPU: Nvidia’s own Grace CPU, a 64-core design based on the Neoverse enterprise architecture. By contrast, Bluefield 3 was based on a 16-core architecture most used in smartphones.
