AMD Collaborates With Wormhole Ecosystem to Enhance Blockchain Interoperability with Hardware Accelerators
On February 21, the interoperability platform Wormhole announced a collaboration with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to integrate AMD’s FPGA hardware accelerators into the Wormhole ecosystem.
According to an official blog post, the partnership will involve AMD supplying the zero-knowledge (zk) interoperability platform with enterprise-grade field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware accelerators.
In addition, AMD’s exclusive Alveo U55C and U250 adaptable accelerator cards will be a part of the integration.
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— Wormhole (@wormholecrypto) February 21, 2024
Low latency is required to produce seamless transactions across the blockchain ecosystem. Enabling this feature requires blockchain protocols to manage heavy data payloads, necessitating vast computing power and resources.
AMD’s expertise in this field will allow Wormhole to deliver speed and scalability to the multichain decentralized applications (dApps) being developed on its platform.
Wormhole seeks to boost blockchain interoperability, particularly for zero-knowledge (zk) cryptographic platforms like itself.
Blockchain interoperability is a term meant to capture communication interchange between differing solutions. Since blockchain networks are often siloed, they rely on interoperability to reconcile information like data and transactions between networks, bridging gaps.
Wormhole addresses this gap by monitoring several layer-1 blockchains for messages released by their embedded smart contracts.
Utilizing its Wormhole Core Layer resident on 30+ blockchain solutions, the messages are routed to the target chain, ensuring precise deployment of the conveyed data. Hence, the blockchain protocol is seen as a decentralized, universal
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