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The Analytics Acceleration Blog
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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
Embedding AI in Chip Development: Challenges and Opportunities
RTL is crown-jewel IP, hardware assigns concurrently not sequentially, and most enterprise GenAI pilots are failing. The software AI playbook doesn't transfer to chip design — the training data isn't there, the semantics don't map. Here's what it actually takes to embed AI into chip development workflows.
Adi Fuchs
Mar 66 min read
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