Intel, like a number of the major players in IT, is casting covetous eyes over the low-latency market, which has by and large been the preserve of smaller, specialist shops until now, be it on the hardware or software side. Other companies have made acquisitions, such as IBM’s purchase of feed handler vendor InfoDyne earlier this year, or indeed the acquisition of Wombat by the New York Stock Exchange back in January, but Intel is adopting a different approach.
Intel Seeking to Host FPGAs for Low Latency
August 12, 2008