Fabric's VPU crypto chip: hardware innovation that subverts cryptographic computing

Fabric has just completed a $33 million financing, which will be used to develop a new type of cryptographic chip - the Verifiable Processing Unit (VPU).

This chip is designed for cryptographic computing and uses a specific instruction set architecture to improve the efficiency of cryptographic algorithm processing.

Unlike CPUs and GPUs, VPUs combine the advantages of both and optimize the computing speed of cryptographic operations such as smart contracts, zero-knowledge proofs, and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).

VPU is expected to improve the performance of blockchain networks, accelerate block verification and smart contract execution, and provide more efficient cryptographic verification in the field of decentralized identity and privacy.

The founders of Fabric all have backgrounds in top universities, showing the project's strong technical foundation in hardware and cryptography. However, the demand for hardware in the crypto industry remains uncertain, and Fabric's success still needs time to test.