NVIDIA announced NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX, a modular reference architecture that enables enterprises, cloud and AI providers to easily deploy accelerated storage infrastructure capable of the long-context reasoning required for agentic AI.Traditional data centers provide high-capacity, general-purpose storage but lack the responsiveness required for seamless interaction with AI agents that work across many steps, tools and sessions. Agentic AI demands real-time access to data and contextual working memory to keep conversations and tasks fast and coherent. As context grows, traditional storage and data paths can slow AI inference and reduce GPU utilization.NVIDIA STX allows storage providers to build infrastructure that keeps data close and accessible at scale, so agentic AI factories can deliver higher throughput and responsiveness across inference, training and analytics.
The first rack-scale implementation includes the new NVIDIA CMX context memory storage platform, which expands GPU memory with a high-performance context layer for scalable inference and agentic systems ? providing up to 5x tokens per second compared with traditional storage. STX is accelerated by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform and harnesses a new, storage-optimized NVIDIA BlueField-4 processor that combines the NVIDIA Vera CPU with NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, together with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, NVIDIA DOCA and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
The STX architecture also enables 4x higher energy efficiency compared with traditional CPU architectures for high-performance storage and can ingest 2x more pages per second for enterprise AI data.Storage providers partners codesigning next-generation AI infrastructure based on NVIDIA STX include Cloudian, DDN, Dell Technologies, Everpure, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, IBM, MinIO, NetApp, Nutanix, VAST Data and WEKA.Manufacturing partners building STX-based systems include AIC, Supermicro and Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT).Leading AI labs and cloud service providers planning to adopt STX for context memory storage include CoreWeave, Crusoe, IREN, Lambda, Mistral AI, Nebius, OCI and Vultr.STX-based platforms will be available from partners in the second half of this year.
NVIDIA Corporation is the world leader in the design, development, and marketing of programmable graphics processors. The group also develops associated software. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- computing and networking solutions (89%): data center platforms and infrastructure, Ethernet interconnect solutions, high-performance computing solutions, platforms and solutions for autonomous and intelligent vehicles, solutions for enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure, crypto-currency mining processors, embedded computer boards for robotics, teaching, learning and artificial intelligence development, etc.;
- graphics processors (11%): for PCs, game consoles, video game streaming platforms, workstations, etc. (GeForce, NVIDIA RTX, Quadro brands, etc.). The group also offers laptops, desktops, gaming computers, computer peripherals (monitors, mice, joysticks, remote controls, etc.), software for visual and virtual computing, platforms for automotive infotainment systems and cloud collaboration platforms.
Net sales break down by industry between data storage (88.3%), gaming (8.7%), professional visualization (1.4%), automotive (1.3%) and other (0.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (46.9%), Singapore (18.2%), Taiwan (15.8%), China and Hong Kong (13.1%) and other (6%).
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