Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that Optiver – a leading global market maker with trading operations on more than 100 exchanges – is widely adopting AMD’s high-performance computing engine to help further its mission of improving financial markets by building a modern infrastructure that serves as an organizational foundation. With AMD EPYC processors, AMD Solarflare low-latency Ethernet adapters, AMD Virtex FPGas, and AMD Alveo Adaptive acceleration cards, Optiver is addressing a variety of technical challenges to build systems that can make financial markets more advanced.

125720-01 Alexander Itkin, Chief Technology Officer of Optiver USA, said: “We are a team of researchers and engineers with a common vision: to build systems that make financial markets better. Whether it’s challenging the speed of light to minimize latency or building world-leading computing scales, we’re pushing the limits. What we need is a computing infrastructure that allows us to deal with the complexity of capital markets in nanoseconds. For us, only AMD’s high-performance products make this possible and help us successfully and sustainably adapt to the financial markets.”

Archana Vemulapalli, global vice president, AMD Commercial Enterprise, said: “AMD is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of business customers and deliver impressive performance and energy efficiency with its robust and diverse portfolio of compute engines, two key components of the modern data center. Our partnership with Optiver is a great example of how we are working with our customers to push the limits of what is possible, while demonstrating the capabilities of AMD business solutions and how it can help our customers meet current and future challenges.”

AMD enterprise products that help Optiver modernize its infrastructure and increase the speed and efficiency of its business include:

AMD EPYC CPU: Optiver is using fourth-generation AMD EPYC processors to build the large-scale computing it needs to drive data analytics and provide core density for the company’s data center modernization and workload consolidation efforts.

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Solarflare Ethernet Adapters: Optiver also uses the AMD Solarflare X2 series Ethernet network adapters designed for high-performance electronic trading environments. These adapters can provide low-level control of the network interface at the application layer.

Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA: The exponential growth of data requires intelligent networking and data center solutions beyond fixed-function silicon devices to provide maximum throughput, high data processing power, and the flexibility to adapt to evolving connectivity standards. The AMD Virtex UltraScale+ VU23P FPGA can help Optiver accelerate its systems while maintaining long-term adaptability.

125720-01 Alveo acceleration card: Optiver uses AMD Alveo U55C and Alveo UL3524 adaptive acceleration cards, the latter of which provides a 7x latency improvement compared to previous generation FPGA technology.

Kevin Sprague, Optiver’s US hardware Lead, said: “Our ultimate goal is to have faster access to data and information, which is integral to meeting the unique needs and workflows of the financial industry. The high-performance Alveo ultra-low latency accelerator card is also critical, allowing us to transmit more information faster. Our partnership with AMD has helped us develop products and features that the industry needs. In addition, our collaboration allows us to leverage not only AMD FPGas, but also AMD EPYC cpus to scale and optimize our products to build high-performance trading systems and infrastructure.”

AMD’s portfolio of powerful, innovative and proven solutions helps enterprise customers meet today’s challenges. Optiver demonstrates leadership in AMD’s computing portfolio, where an intelligent solution made up of multiple independent devices working together is better than the sum of its parts, delivering unmatched value to the company and its customers.