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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


Webinar Recap: The New Computing Paradigm for Advanced Analytics & AI
CPUs and GPUs weren't built for analytics at scale. See how purpose-built processors for analytics workloads delivers 11x faster Apache Spark performance, with real results from pharma and adtech deployments, and a free Workload Analyzer to test against your own jobs.

Daniela Sztulwark
Dec 10, 20253 min read
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