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| date = September 2011 | access-date = September 24, 2015
| author1 = Patrick Kutch | author2 = Brian Johnson | author3 = Greg Rose
| publisher = [[Intel]] }}</ref>
 
Some NICs provide a [[TCP offload engine]] to offload processing of the entire [[TCP/IP]] stack to the network controller. It is primarily used with high-speed network interfaces, such as Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, for which the processing overhead of the network stack becomes significant.<ref>{{cite web