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259× Faster! What Microsoft's Award-Winning SIGMOD Paper Says About the Speedata APU
Microsoft's paper "CoddSpeed: Hardware Accelerated Query Processing in Microsoft Fabric" won the Best Industry Paper Award at SIGMOD 2026, one of the top academic conferences in database research. The paper documents Microsoft's multi-year effort to move analytics from CPUs onto hardware accelerators and the Speedata C-200 Analytics Processing Unit (APU) is one of the three coprocessor architectures Microsoft integrated and benchmarked inside its next-generation Fabric archit
Daniela Sztulwark
Jun 113 min read
APU vs. LPU vs. TPU vs. GPU vs. CPU: When to Use Each One
Not every workload belongs on a GPU. From CPUs to APUs, TPUs, and LPUs - five processors, five jobs, and a clear guide to picking the right one for AI, analytics, and inference at scale.
Daniela Sztulwark
May 66 min read
One Chip Can’t Do It All - The New AI Tech Stack
No single processor can handle every AI workload efficiently. Speedata's recap breaks down how CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, LPUs, and APUs each fit into the modern AI infrastructure stack.
Daniela Sztulwark
Apr 147 min read
A Case Study - Post-Training Scheme for AI Assisted Chip Verification: UART-to-AXI Block
A real-world Speedata case study on AI-assisted VLSI verification — how we embedded AI agents into a UVM workflow using a UART-to-AXI bridge with a structured post-training scheme.
Adi Fuchs
Mar 172 min read
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