The NVIDIA® BlueField® platform powers AI factories — the new class of purpose-built data centers for AI — with hardware accelerators for software-defined networking, storage, and security. Together with NVIDIA DOCA, the software platform for BlueField, developers and infrastructure teams can build and deploy programmable infrastructure services that offload, accelerate, and isolate critical data center functions at the speed and scale agentic AI demands

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NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU 

The NVIDIA BlueField-4 is an 800Gb/s infrastructure platform for gigascale AI factories. Delivering six times the compute of its predecessor and featuring accelerations for networking, data storage, and cybersecurity, it unlocks new levels of performance, efficiency, and scale for AI infrastructure. Supported by a growing ecosystem of applications, BlueField-4 enables service providers and enterprises to deliver secure multi-tenant networking, rapid data access, real-time threat detection, and high-performance inference.

NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX 
Storage Processor

The NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX storage processor is purpose-built to power AI storage platforms with accelerated AI-native data movement and in-silicon security, boosting throughput, efficiency, and scalability for next-generation AI infrastructure. Combining the NVIDIA Vera CPU and NVIDIA ConnectX-9 networking, the storage processor serves as a storage-side CPU and data-path engine, orchestrating data access, metadata processing, and secure storage services directly in the I/O path

STX-based platforms based on BlueField-4 are expected to be available from partners in the second half of 2026.

NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU  

The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a 400Gb/s infrastructure compute platform with line-rate processing of software-defined networking, storage, and cybersecurity functions. BlueField-3 combines powerful computing, high-speed networking, and extensive programmability to deliver software-defined, hardware-accelerated solutions for the most demanding workloads. From accelerated AI to hybrid cloud, high-performance computing to 5G wireless networks, client-side data access to efficient storage arrays, BlueField-3 redefines the art of the possible.

NVIDIA DOCA Software Platform 

NVIDIA DOCA™ is the unified software platform that unlocks the full potential of BlueField DPUs for agentic AI infrastructure. It provides production-ready microservices, SDKs, and orchestration frameworks across networking, AI-native storage, in-silicon security, observability, and lifecycle management. DOCA and BlueField give developers the software building blocks to build and operate infrastructure services — networking, security, and storage — that scale across the most demanding agentic AI factory environments

WWT experts and the AI Proving Ground in our Advanced Technology Center (ATC) can help customers evaluate NVIDIA BlueField DPUs