Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a semiconductor developer, has partnered with the interoperability platform Wormhole to introduce enterprise-grade hardware accelerators to the Web3 space. Wormhole, known for its ability to power multichain applications and bridges on a large scale, will integrate AMD’s FPGA hardware accelerators into its ecosystem. This collaboration will leverage AMD’s expertise in hardware acceleration and technical support to enhance speed and scalability for multichain applications built with Wormhole.
Furthermore, both AMD and Wormhole engineers plan to release mainnet deployments of various zero-knowledge light clients, enabling trustless message-passing between blockchains such as Ethereum, Near, Solana, Aptos, Sui, and Cosmos. The combination of zero-knowledge cryptography and enhanced computing power will facilitate more secure blockchain transfers, reducing 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), providing a trustless solution. Hamid Salehi, 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 the ecosystem closer to achieving low-latency, trustless, multichain messaging. The introduction of several ZK-enabled corridors as part of this partnership is expected to enhance the user experience in terms of speed and security.
AMD, well-known for its development of semiconductor chips used in high-level artificial intelligence (AI) applications, competes directly with market leaders like Microsoft and Intel. Many industry insiders in the Web3 industry anticipate that AI and blockchain will emerge as a powerful combination in the coming year, as both technologies offer complementary use cases.