An Application-Specific Integrated Circuit is a silicon chip that is designed for a specific purpose, rather than a generic purpose chip like a CPU. In networking, ASICs generally refer to ethernet or cell switching processing units. Popular ASIC manufacturers include Broadcom, Nvidia/Mellanox, Marvell, Intel, and Cisco.
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