hardware acceleration

The promise of financial AI has resulted in a growing number of advanced technologies that are supposed to deliver it. We hear from experts at a recent conference organized by…

Quant view on reinforcement learning and quantum computing in trading (Premium)

February 5, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Technology

AAA Quants, artificial intelligence, execution, hardware acceleration, IBM Q, portfolio optimization, quants, Quantum Computing, reinforcement learning, topstory

Reinforcement learning and quantum computing are the bleeding edge of advanced tech adoption in financial markets. We talk to Tom Starke from quant trading firm AAA Quants about the practical…

Intel unveils cryogenic control chip for quantum practicality

December 11, 2019

hardware acceleration, Intel, quantum computers, quantum practicality

Intel Labs introduced a cryogenic control chip — code-named “Horse Ridge” — that will speed up the development of full-stack quantum computing systems. Horse Ridge will enable control of multiple…

Citadel among early clients for Microsoft Azure’s move on Graphcore IPUs

November 13, 2019

Citadel, Graphcore, hardware acceleration, IPUs, machine learning, Microsoft Azure, NLP

Graphcore announced a collaboration for its Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) with Microsoft Azure. This is the first time a major public cloud vendor is offering Graphcore IPUs, which are built…

Reuters: AWS has its own microchip for machine learning

November 29, 2018

ASICs, AWS, hardware acceleration, low latency, machine learning

Amazon launched a microchip aimed at machine learning, entering a market that both Intel and Nvidia are counting on to boost their earnings in the coming years. Amazon is one…

AI tech: are your neural networks convoluted? Try spikes.

October 26, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Technology

ASICs, BrainChip, deep learning, hardware acceleration, neural networks, SNNs

The application of artificial intelligence across industries depends on hardware acceleration, and some of the ways that’s being done was detailed at a recent Nvidia conference for GPU (graphics processing…

Nvidia boasts deep learning hardware breakthroughs, but early days for finance (Premium)

October 23, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Technology

deep learning, explainable AI, hardware acceleration, neural networks, Nvidia, Optimizing Mind

Nvidia has been getting a lot of attention for its GPU strategy in an era of artificial intelligence, not least due to the atmospheric rise of its stock price over…

QuantHouse and Enyx introduce FPGA-accelerated market data as a service

September 19, 2018

APIs, Enyx, hardware acceleration, Hong Kong, market data, QuantHouse