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Silicon Data
silicondata.com · USA · GPU-compute pricing indexes & benchmarks (reference prices for CME's planned GPU futures market)
What they're building
The data/index layer for a financialized GPU-compute market — independent, benchmark-grade reference prices that let exchanges (CME) and traders create and settle GPU futures and other compute derivatives.
Why this matters
As compute becomes a tradable commodity, whoever owns the trusted reference price owns critical market infrastructure (the 'Platts/Argus for GPUs'). CME, DRW, Jump and Wintermute investing signals the derivatives ecosystem is being built now. Founder Carmen Li (ex-Bloomberg, ex-DRW) has exactly the market-data + trading pedigree required.