AMD partners with the Wormhole ecosystem to integrate enterprise-grade hardware accelerators into the Web3 space, facilitating blockchain interoperability.
Semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is partnering with Worrmhole to integrate enterprise-grade hardware accelerators into the Web3 environment to facilitate blockchain interoperability.
The interoperability platform Wormhole, renowned for facilitating large-scale bridges and multichain applications, announced a partnership with AMD on February 21 to integrate AMD FPGA hardware accelerators into the Wormhole ecosystem.
AMD will utilize its hardware acceleration expertise and provide technical support to the ecosystem as part of the partnership, which will aid in developing multichain applications that use Wormhole in speed and scalability.
Furthermore, engineers from Wormhole and AMD intend to release mainnet deployments of diverse zero-knowledge light clients in the ensuing months. This will facilitate the transmission of messages without reliance on trust among blockchains, such as Cosmos, Near, Solana, Aptos, and Ethereum.
The convergence of zero-knowledge cryptography developments and increased computing power enables a system that facilitates more secure blockchain transactions, diminishing the need for intermediary organizations to establish trust and ensure security.
Wormhole stated that by adopting zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), it could establish a trustless solution and reduce its dependence on centralized node operators.
Director of Product Management for AMD’s Adaptive and Embedded Computation Group Hamid Salehi stated that the organization is “ecstatic” to assist in the acceleration of “decentralized computing in the blockchain industry.”
According to Wormhole ecosystem contributor Rahul Maganti, the AMD partnership will “bring the ecosystem one step closer” to trustless, multichain messaging with minimal latency.
He stated that the partnership’s anticipated implementation of multiple ZK-enabled corridors should enhance the user experience “both in terms of speed and security.”
Widely recognized for its creation of semiconductor processors that power sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) applications, AMD has gained widespread recognition for this endeavor. It contends directly with market leaders, including Microsoft and Intel.
Numerous Web3 industry insiders anticipate that AI and blockchain will form a formidable duo within the next year, given that their respective use cases are complementary.
