When used with I/O devices, the term intelligent implies.
Feature to support offline and online tasks used with I/O devices, the term intelligent implies.
Intelligent Input/Output (I2O) was an input/output (I/O) specification that was designed to use an Intel i960 microprocessor as an I/O offloading engine. It was created by Intel Corporation in the mid-1990s to streamline and accelerate I/O operations on servers. I2O was also intended to remove the need for different drivers for each OS, network card and small computer system interface (SCSI) card.