AMD to provide blockchain interoperability support with hardware accelerators

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a semiconductor developer, is entering the Web3 arena to support blockchain interoperability by introducing enterprise-grade hardware accelerators.
On February 21, Wormhole, an interoperability platform known for facilitating large-scale multichain applications and bridges, announced its collaboration with AMD to integrate its FPGA hardware accelerators into the Wormhole ecosystem.
As part of the partnership, AMD will leverage its expertise in hardware acceleration and technical support to enhance the speed and scalability of multichain applications being developed on Wormhole.
Furthermore, engineers from both AMD and Wormhole are planning to release mainnet deployments of various zero-knowledge light clients in the coming months. This will enable trustless message-passing between blockchains, including Ethereum, Near, Solana, Aptos, Sui, and Cosmos.
The combination of advancements in zero-knowledge cryptography and increased computing power will result in more secure blockchain transfers and reduce the reliance on third-party entities for trust and security.
Wormhole stated that the adoption of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) will help diminish its dependence on centralized node operators in favor of a trustless solution.
Hamid Salehi, the director of product management for Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group at AMD, expressed the company’s excitement in accelerating decentralized computing in the blockchain industry.
Rehul Maganti, a contributor to the Wormhole ecosystem, highlighted that the AMD partnership will bring the ecosystem closer to achieving low-latency, trustless, multichain messaging. The implementation of several ZK-enabled corridors through this collaboration is expected to enhance the user experience in terms of speed and security.
AMD is well-known for its development of semiconductor chips used to power advanced artificial intelligence (AI) applications. It competes directly with industry leaders like Microsoft and Intel.
Many experts in the Web3 industry anticipate AI and blockchain to emerge as a powerful combination in the next year, as both technologies offer complementary use cases.
In a recent interview, Vance Spencer, a prominent figure in the crypto industry, emphasized the inevitability of crypto and the significant potential it holds.