> Mark Tinka > Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2020 10:55 PM > > On 12/Jul/20 21:00, Saku Ytti wrote: > > > This is a bit orthogonal. You can have an NPU with TCAM or NPU with > > DRAM. You could also have ASIC with TCAM or ASIC with DRAM. > > Sorry, meant to say "NPU or ASIC". > > The general messaging, over the years, has been that ASIC is quick but not > flexible, while NPU is flexible but can get bogged down by added flexibility in > time. > That's basically it. On J2 you can pretty much enable all the bells and whistles you can and still get the same pps rate out of it as with no features enabled. On run to completion NPUs every feature you enable costs you pps rate.
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