TechFlow News — Polygon Labs has announced a $5 million investment to procure server systems equipped with Fabric's Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs), becoming the first protocol to invest in this chip technology.
Fabric's VPU is next-generation crypto-native hardware optimized for Web3, designed to accelerate all ZK-based Polygon protocols, including AggLayer, Polygon zkEVM, and Polygon CDK's ZK infrastructure.
The VPU will support dozens of cryptographic primitives and perform significantly more large-integer operations than typical GPUs. Each VPU card contains three FC1000 chips, with each chip featuring 40 custom compute units, totaling 120 compute units per card.
Fabric plans to deliver beta prototypes accelerating Plonky2 and Polygon Plonky3 on VPUs within 6 to 12 months.
