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VMware has quietly walked its SmartNIC ambitions

Broadcom said customers were not buying the product, and conventional network cards had improved enough to reduce SmartNIC benefits.

Summary by The Register
Virtzilla’s bet on hyperscale hardware going mainstream didn’t excite customers, but may live on

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VMware is restructuring its strategy by discontinuing sales of its SmartNIC-based firewall products. Here are the details of VMware's change in hardware strategy. The article "VMware Decides to Backtrack on SmartNIC Strategy" first appeared on TechInside.

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The Register broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Monday, September 21, 2026.
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