STAC Blog
Posted: January 26, 2026
DeepSeek: A Year On
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NVIDIA provides GPU accelerators that help financial service firms drive their business faster, with better analytics, at lower cost, through AI or traditional computational finance. In addition, an ecosystem of software and service vendors can accelerate time to market of NVIDIA-based solutions.
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INTEL
Intel is a leading provider of compute, storage, and networking technology. In financial services, Intel-enabled solutions help enterprises become more insightful, agile, secure, and efficient.
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KX provides the kdb+ time-series database, a leader in high-performance, streaming, real-time and historical data analytics. KX also offers a broad suite of business intelligence tools and solutions with rich visualization capabilities built on kdb+.
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