Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a semiconductor developer, is entering the Web3 sector by introducing enterprise-grade hardware accelerators to support blockchain interoperability. On February 21, Wormhole, an interoperability platform known for its ability to power large-scale multichain applications and bridges, announced its collaboration with AMD to bring FPGA hardware accelerators to the Wormhole ecosystem. AMD will utilize its expertise in hardware acceleration and provide technical support to enhance the speed and scalability of multichain applications developed with Wormhole. Moreover, in the coming months, engineers from both AMD and Wormhole plan to release mainnet deployments of various zero-knowledge light clients. This will enable trustless message-passing between different blockchains, including Ethereum, Near, Solana, Aptos, Sui, and Cosmos. The combination of advancements in zero-knowledge cryptography and enhanced computing power will support more secure blockchain transfers and reduce reliance on third-party entities for trust and security. Wormhole aims to reduce its dependence on centralized node operators by adopting zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) as a trustless solution. Hamid Salehi, the director of product management for Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group at AMD, expressed excitement about accelerating decentralized computing in the blockchain industry through this partnership. Rehul Maganti, a contributor to the Wormhole ecosystem, believes that the collaboration with AMD will bring them closer to achieving low-latency, trustless, multichain messaging, enhancing both speed and security for users. AMD is well-known for its semiconductor chip development, particularly for high-level artificial intelligence (AI) applications, putting it in direct competition with market leaders like Microsoft and Intel. Many industry experts in the Web3 sector anticipate that AI and blockchain will emerge as a powerful combination in the coming year, as both technologies offer complementary use cases.
AMD's hardware accelerators to enable seamless blockchain interoperability