In order to enable blockchain interoperability, semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is introducing enterprise-grade hardware accelerators into the Web3 domain.Wormhole, a platform for interoperability that powers large-scale bridges and multichain applications, announced on February 21 that it is partnering with AMD to integrate its FPGA hardware accelerators into the Wormhole ecosystem.Through the collaboration, AMD will also leverage its experience in hardware acceleration and technical ecosystem support to aid in the scalability and speed of multichain applications developed using Wormhole.Furthermore, Wormhole and AMD developers intend to provide mainnet deployments of different zero-knowledge light clients in the months that follow.This will facilitate the transfer of messages between blockchains, such as Ethereum, Near, Solana, Aptos, Sui, and Cosmos, without the need for trust.
New developments in zero-knowledge cryptography combined with increased processing power allow for safer blockchain transactions and less dependence on outside parties to build security and trust.
Adoption of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), according to Wormhole, will assist in lowering its dependency on centralized node operators in favor of a trustless system.The Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group head of product management at AMD, Hamid Salehi, stated that the business is “excited” to contribute to the acceleration of “decentralized computing in the blockchain industry.”The AMD collaboration will move the ecosystem “one step closer” to low-latency, trustless, multichain messaging, according to Rehul Maganti, a contributor to the Wormhole ecosystem.According to him, “both in terms of speed and security,” the partnership’s multiple ZK-enabled corridors should improve user experience.
The creation of semiconductor chips by AMD, which enable sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has made the company well-known.It faces off against industry titans like Intel and Microsoft.As both technologies offer complementary use cases to one another, many industry insiders in the Web3 sector believe that AI and blockchain will emerge as a power couple in the market over the coming year.