PeterB

High Frequency Trading Is a Zero-Sum Game: Impact on Intel, AMD

April 1st was nearly four weeks ago. So can one seriously think to program an FPGA to do NASDAQ's trading operations faster than a CPU? Naw, there is no way this makes sense. Yes, the I/O is a bottleneck for any computing system (just watch the disk drive light when you load or save a big spreadsheet), but it is not going to get better for an FPGA. Having more memory on the CPU itself is a better way to improve performance. I have been designing ICs for 46 years, and have programmed computers and FPGAs in passing.