DU solution9 Jul 2021 09:53
A point not made previously about how Ethernity will be managing the DU mass rollouts.
"The DU market will be served by Ethernity in one or all of the following business models:
1. Sell the Company's proprietary ACE-NIC FPGA NIC hardware (and future generations), that will embed the Company's IP and software stack, which may result in the Company requiring additional working capital to fund the manufacturing process for large volumes.
2. For high volume NIC deployments such as DU market as indicated above, the Company will seek to build a disaggregate business where hardware will be delivered directly to the customer through a 3rd party FPGA vendor and the Company will sell the software, allowing reduced costs for the customer and the ability to propose a joint competitive offering to the customer.
3. Subsequent to obtaining a large enough market share, given that the Company holds a complete ownership over the code running on the FPGA without any dependency on 3rd parties, the Company may consider converting the FPGA design to an ASIC with the intention of entering and capturing a larger market segment at higher margins"
Options 2 & 3 look like a huge outcome for Ethernity.