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They designed their chips themselves? As in, design the RTL and get it fabricated from a foundary - all by themselves? Did they hire RTL / Digital Design Engin
by godelmachine 9y ago
They designed their chips themselves? As in, design the RTL and get it fabricated from a foundary - all by themselves?
Did they hire RTL / Digital Design Engineers?
Just out of curiosity, may I ask the name of the HFT firm?
- tcbawo 9y agoI would be shocked to hear that they fabricated a chip. The cost and loss of flexibility vs an FPGA makes it unlikely. Very little is so static that the power and latency savings pays for itself. I wouldn't be surprised if these firms fabricated their own crypto ASICs though.
- godelmachine 9y agoThat's a good point. Since speed is one of the driving force in this business, software level cryptography won't be able to keep pace with such high speed transactions. Security has to be provided at the hardware level.
- hellofunk 9y agoNo, they did not design the actual chips, not did I suggest they did. But they did design the boxes that hold the chips and I was surprised by the amount of effort they dedicated to hardware matters.
- godelmachine 9y agoWould you kindly shed more light on what do you mean by "box"?