Acceleration

Where have all the blockchain startups gone?

Building a startup is hard. Building a blockchain startup is harder. More than 10 current and former financial blockchain builders and users detail their experiences of trying to cut their teeth on a once-darling tech, and the lessons they’re still…

Weighing the Benefits: Hardware Vs Software

In the pursuit of new ways to eliminate latency from the market data distribution and trading processes, vendors have invested in hardware-acceleration technologies, such as FPGAs. But with commodity chips now giving specialist hardware a run for its…

S&P Real-Time Debuts FPGA OPRA Feed

The Real-Time Solutions division of S&P Capital IQ (formerly QuantHouse, prior to its acquisition by S&P in 2012) has unveiled QuantFeed FPGA for OPRA, a hardware-accelerated version of its consolidated datafeed that delivers additional processing power…

Invea Bows FPGA Data, Trading Appliance

Invea-Tech, a provider of hardware acceleration technologies based in Brno in the Czech Republic, has released an FPGA (field-programmable gate array)-based trading system, TradeCope, which combines software management with hardware for handling market…