vriendspookstem's comments

On: Intel's Tofino P4 Software Is Now Open Source

[vriendspookstem]

yes,they might provide it to hyperscalers or allows them to customize some of the packet parsing pipeline for these companies.

On: Intel's Tofino P4 Software Is Now Open Source

[vriendspookstem]

P4 as a language is still used on some programmable NICs for describing packet parsing dataplanes and exists as an HDL. Unfortunately the SDKs are not always exposed to small scale companies or universities like Intel did with Tofino.