As AI workloads reshape modern data center architecture, the humble network card has evolved into one of the most strategically important pieces of infrastructure in the stack. DPUs (Data Processing Units) and IPUs (Infrastructure Processing Units) now handle networking, storage, and security offload at scale freeing CPUs and GPUs to focus entirely on compute, and enabling the kind of east-west traffic and multi-tenant isolation that AI-scale data centers demand.

But this shift comes with a challenge: every vendor has built its own stack, APIs, and tooling, creating fragmentation that slows adoption and locks operators into single-vendor ecosystems.

This session explores how the Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) community is tackling this problem head-on building a vendor-neutral, standards-based control plane that works across silicon from Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Marvell, and others.