Sometimes software just isn't fast enough. Some software algorithms, no matter how much you tweak and optimise them, are just fundamentally slow. The good news is we can design custom computer chips that can speed up these algorithms. These computer chips or cores are software programmable hence the term softcore hardware. Once programmed, they're blazingly fast. We then integrate this hardware with custom software and deliver a complete solution. Hardware-assisted solutions can result in massive performance increases of over 2500% (no that's not a typo). This performance increase can give you a significant competitive advantage. eg, within some trading markets, a performance increase of this magnitude can be worth at least US$100m in profits.