This Intel 'server' on a PCIe card has up to 38 Xeon cores, 64GB RAM, two SSDs — and yes, it can even…
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Senao SmartNIC SX906 was one of the more quietly remarkable exhibits on display at Computex 2026 — a PCIe card which functions less like a network adapter and more like a fully equipped server that somehow forgot it was supposed to fit inside a slot.
Built around Intel's Xeon 6 SoC processor in the Granite Rapids-D architecture, the card delivers up to 200Gbps of network performance from a dual-slot form factor.
It weighs 1kg, measures 266 x 98.4 x 40.6mm, and draws power through a PCIe edge finger and a 16-pin 12VHPWR connector — the same connector that feeds power-hungry graphics cards.
More server than network card
This device comes with three processor...
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