CAMBRIDGE, England, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- myrtle.ai, a recognized leader in accelerating machine learning inference, today announced that a stack featuring its VOLLO® product has recently been audited by STAC®, a leading benchmark authority for the finance industry.[1] The results, unveiled at the STAC Summit in London today, clearly demonstrate the latency benefits of an FPGA-based solution for ML inference in financial trading and related applications.
STAC-ML (Markets) Inference is the technology benchmark standard for solutions that may be used to run inference on real-time market data. Designed by quants and technologists from some of the world's leading financial firms, STAC-ML Markets (Inference) reports the performance, resource efficiency, and quality of any technology stack capable of performing inference using the provided models.
VOLLO achieved latencies as low as 2 microseconds (99th percentile) while also exhibiting excellent results in throughput and efficiency. Across all three benchmark models, VOLLO inferred in lower latency (99th percentile) than all previously audited systems, halving its previous record. Such low, deterministic latency enables users to make more intelligent decisions using more complex models faster than in the past, giving them a competitive advantage in trading, risk analysis, quotes and many other trading-related activities.
With hundreds of thousands of hours of production trading under its belt, VOLLO is generating alpha for many of the world's leading trading firms today. Those firms have developed and trained a wide range of models in standard ML tool flows before compiling them into VOLLO and then running them on their choice of FPGA-based hardware platform.
In the system under test, VOLLO ran on the standard form factor FBAP4@VP18-2L0S PCIe accelerator card from Silicom, containing an AMD Versal™ Premium series VP1802 Adaptive SoC and installed in a Supermicro AS -2015CS-TNR server. The AMD Versal Premium Series Adaptive SoC provides PCIe Gen5x8 and more than 3.3M programmable LUTs, making it well suited to low latency inference applications.
"Since VOLLO first exploited the full potential of FPGAs in this STAC benchmark in 2023, we have worked with our customers to further reduce latencies, expand the variety and size of models that VOLLO can run, and grow the range of platforms it can run on," said Peter Baldwin, CEO of myrtle.ai. "We're excited to work with AMD, Silicom and Supermicro on this benchmark, to demonstrate how our combined technologies can enable ultra-low latency AI inference in quant trading."
"The future of financial markets will be shaped by AI systems that can interpret data and act on it in near real time," said Girish Malipeddi, director for Data Center FPGA business, AMD. "With AMD Versal™ Premium series adaptive SoCs at the foundation, myrtle.ai's VOLLO demonstrates how advanced, low-latency inference can help unlock a new generation of intelligent trading infrastructure."
"Supermicro continues to address a wide range of markets with our AMD systems, which were used for this STAC-ML benchmark," said Michael McNerney, Senior Vice President Marketing and Network Security, Supermicro. "Our servers address the most challenging workloads in the financial services industry, and together with partners, we are able to deliver top-end performance with very low latencies for machine learning workloads."
Anders Poulsen, VP Solutions at Silicom Denmark, said: "We're pleased that myrtle.ai selected Silicom's Artena accelerator card, based on AMD Versal Premium, for these tests. Built around one of the largest FPGAs in a PCIe form factor, Artena is an ideal platform for VOLLO. Together, VOLLO and our low-latency hardware deliver deterministic, microsecond-level inference for demanding trading workloads."
ML developers can evaluate today how their models could perform on VOLLO, without the need for any FPGA tools or expertise. For more details go to vollo.myrtle.ai or contact myrtle.ai today at fintech@myrtle.ai.
The full benchmark results are available in the STAC Report (SUT ID MRTL260323) at http://www.STACresearch.com/MRTL260323.
About myrtle.ai
Myrtle.ai is an AI/ML software company that delivers world-class inference accelerators on FPGA-based platforms from all the leading FPGA suppliers. With broad neural network expertise, myrtle.ai has delivered accelerators for applications including fintech, wireless telecoms, LLMs, speech processing, and recommendation.
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Myrtle.ai Halves Latency in Financial Machine Learning Inference Benchmark Record with VOLLO
BANDUNG, Indonesia, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Evermos, a Bandung-based reseller platform focused on MSME empowerment, sees significant potential for vulnerable groups to achieve economic empowerment through digital business. According to Statistics Indonesia (BPS), the labour force participation rate among persons with disabilities stood at only around 20% in early 2025, far behind the roughly 70% recorded among people without disabilities.
"We see digital business as a bridge to lower the barriers to economic access for persons with disabilities and returning migrant workers. No significant capital, no need for a physical location, a mobile phone is enough. This business model opens up the opportunity for them to build an independent and sustainable source of income."
Iqbal Muslimin, Chief of Sustainability, Evermos
The collaboration runs under the ILO project Promise II Impact, which aims to improve MSMEs' access to financial services and has been running since 2023. It aligns with Evermos' vision of advancing MSME empowerment across Indonesia. Evermos provides the digital business ecosystem, from its reseller platform and curated halal products to business training and mentoring, while the ILO brings a decent work framework and financial literacy modules that help participants start digital businesses on sound financial footing.
Since 2023, more than 230 beneficiaries have felt the project's impact across various cities. In March 2026, Evermos and the ILO, together with the Migrant Worker Resource Centre (MRC), delivered digital entrepreneurship training for migrant workers in Cirebon, West Java. A similar programme was also held in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, involving persons with disabilities from various groups, including those supported by the BPKK of the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower, the Indonesian Association of Women with Disabilities (HWDI) Sleman, and the Mitra Sejahtera Disability Empowerment Centre (PPDMS) Gunungkidul.
During the training, participants were guided to try selecting products to sell directly through the Evermos app, to apply digital marketing techniques, and to strengthen their entrepreneurial mindset so that earnings from their working years can grow into long-term productive assets. They were also introduced to and practised using WhatsApp Business as one tool to start a digital business. Meanwhile, the ILO team complemented the training with basic financial literacy so participants could manage their new businesses soundly.
"For us, digital transformation also becomes meaningful when it reaches vulnerable groups, those furthest from the information they need to empower themselves economically. Through Evermos, a person with a disability or a migrant worker returning to their hometown can start a business with nothing more than a smartphone, without significant capital — and that is what truly inclusive empowerment looks like."
Arip Tirta, President, Evermos
"The conclusion of this series of activities is not the end of the participants' journey, but the beginning of their path as digital entrepreneurs. Three years of experience have shown that when vulnerable groups gain access to the right skills, technology, and mentoring, they are able to create economic opportunities for themselves. The partnership between the ILO and Evermos is an example of how collaboration can help bring about more inclusive economic growth that leaves no one behind."
Djauhari Sitorus, Project Manager, Promise II Impact
Closing out three years of the Promise II Impact project, Evermos and the ILO hope this contribution can encourage vulnerable groups to take part in driving Indonesia's economic growth as digital entrepreneurs. By opening access to doing business digitally, vulnerable groups can become economically empowered and self-reliant. Beyond that, the collaboration is intended to serve as a model of inclusive empowerment that can be replicated across more regions — so that an economy open to all is not merely an aspiration, but something that can be realised.
About Evermos
Evermos is a reseller platform that integrates a distribution network, commerce services, and a curated range of halal products with business communities focused on serving underserved communities. Evermos supports the success of its resellers regardless of gender, educational background, or geographic location by providing regular business training and mentoring.
Founded in November 2018, Evermos has built the largest reseller-based connected commerce network in Indonesia, with over 1 million resellers nationwide, more than 200,000 active monthly sellers, and hundreds of products from Indonesian MSMEs. Evermos has also received various prestigious accolades, including the Top CSR Award – Star 4 2026, the Seal Business Sustainability Award 2025, the Nikkei Asia Award 2023, and the UN Women 2024 Indonesian Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), and is a member of the global Endeavor Entrepreneur network. Evermos is also part of the World Economic Forum's Global Innovators Community.
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Evermos Partners with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to Deliver Entrepreneurship Training for Indonesia's Vulnerable Groups
