Based on AMD's Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA, offering ultra-low transceiver latency of less than 3s, the AMD Alveo UL3422 accelerator card brings something that AMD says is not achievable with standard off-the-shelf FPGAs. The Alveo UL3422 comes in a slim FHHL (full height, half length) form factor, which gives it both great compatibility as well as the ability to fit into a wide range of servers and exchange data centers.

The Alveo UL3422 accelerator card can be utilized in an existing infrastructure ecosystem and is supported by a growing network of ecosystem partners, including:

• Exegy, a provider of end-to-end, front-office trading solutions, is supporting the AMD Alveo UL3422 card with its Development Framework (nxFramework). nxFramework is a hardware and software development environment designed to efficiently build and maintain ultra-low latency FPGA applications for the financial industry.
• Hypertec, a provider of hardware, cloud, and value-added solutions for the financial services industry, has closely collaborated with AMD. The company's HF X410R-G6 server is certified to support the Alveo UL3422 accelerator, making it the first 1U server fully optimized for this card.
• Xelera Technologies, a software provider for high-speed network technology and machine learning (ML) applications, collaborated with AMD to help overcome the latency drawback of ML algorithms in high-frequency trading. With Xelera Silva users can take advantage of real-time, ML-based trading decisions while leveraging XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost and other advanced models.

"Speed is the ultimate advantage in the increasingly competitive world of high-speed trading," said Yousef Khalilollahi, corporate vice president & general manager, Adaptive Computing Group, AMD. "The Alveo UL3422 card provides a lower-cost entry point while still delivering cutting-edge latency performance, making it accessible to firms of all sizes that want to stay competitive in the ultra-low latency trading space."

According to AMD, the Alveo UL3422 accelerator card is currently available and shipping in production volumes to global financial services customers.