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In August, chip company Tachyum unveiled its proposal for a 20 exaFLOP supercomputer – 20 times faster than the world’s current record holder – to be developed by 2025. This would be based on Prodigy, its flagship product and described as the world’s first “universal” processor.

The Cassovia New Industry Cluster launched in 2021 with the aim of bringing universities and industry together to increase the industrial competitiveness of an economically deprived region

Tachyum and Cologne Chip will build and test HPC infrastructure based on FPGA, Tachyum chips and reference architecture and FPGA/AI chips from Cologne Chip.

Tachyum has taken another step towards achieving production-ready status of its universal processor – Prodigy.

Tachyum continues to advance towards production-ready status of its universal processor after reaching its latest milestone of running LINPACK benchmarks using Prodigy’s Floating-Point Unit (FPU) on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).

Tachyum released a white paper that examines how its Prodigy processor addresses trends in AI, enabling deep learning workloads that are environmentally friendly by achieving less energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Tachyum released a white paper that examines how its Prodigy processor addresses trends in AI, enabling deep learning workloads that are environmentally friendly by achieving less energy consumption and carbon emissions. The AI training models leveraged are all fully functional, ensuring Prodigy remains on the leading edge of the industry.

The AI training models leveraged are all fully functional, ensuring Prodigy remains on the leading edge of the industry.

Tachyum released its Prodigy Architectural Overview White Paper that unveils never-before-disclosed architectural characteristics of the system-on-chip (SoC), including chip layout, and the architecture of the world’s first universal processor. The white paper describes in detail how Prodigy addresses processor performance plateauing to overcome the major challenges facing today’s data centers.

Tachyum has officially published the whitepaper of its 5nm Prodigy Universal Processor which was unveiled all the way back in 2018.

The majority of PCs in the world are powered by an Intel chip. But there are other companies who could take the crown. Tachyum promises a “Universal Processor” named Prodigy which is well-suited to tackle various workloads that would usually be split to different processing units.

There are a slew of semiconductor startups looking to break into the market, either with some big AI training chips, or some super-fast little inference devices, or perhaps an HPC-focused design for a specific problem. In this article, we look at Tachyum, a US/EU chip startup that first appeared on our radar in 2018 with an amazing high-performance, high-frequency processor design that covers many segments market.

Tachyum™ has announced it has entered the Quality Assurance (QA) phase for hardware and software testing on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) emulation boards for Prodigy, the world’s first universal processor.

Tachyum and MatLogica will jointly explore and evaluate the benefits of incorporating support for Prodigy processors.

Tachyum today announced it has entered into an agreement with MatLogica, a London-based deep-tech company, to cooperate on projects in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC).

We’re talking a 128-core, 2×1024-bit vector per core, 5.7 GHz, 1 TB/sec of DRAM behemoth that on the top model pings 950W. Whoever said we were running out of thermal headroom in the datacenter was clearly wrong, and Tachyum have a point to prove. In this article, we’re going through the new design, how it compared to the old one, and what we can glean from Tachyum’s disclosures.

Fabio Vernillo, head of investments for Avanea, is the first member of Tachyum`s Board of Observers.

Tachyum said that it had submitted a bid to the Department of Energy to build a 20 exaflops supercomputer in 2025. The machine would be based on the company’s next-generation Prodigy processors featuring a proprietary microarchitecture that can be used for different types of workloads.

Tachyum today announced that it has responded to a U.S. Department of Energy Request for Information soliciting Advanced Computing Ecosystems for DOE national laboratories engaged in scientific and national security research. Tachyum has submitted a proposal to create a 20-exaflop supercomputer based on Tachyum’s Prodigy, the world’s first universal processor.

Tachyum has submitted a proposal to create a 20-exaflop supercomputer based on Tachyum’s Prodigy, the world’s first universal processor.

Tachyum released the world’s first universal processor, Tachyum Prodigy, in May 2022, promising to increase microchip performance and dramatically reduce power consumption. While high-performance computing and AI applications typically require multiple CPUs and GPUs, Tachyum Prodigy has rolled that performance into one single microprocessor while offering backward compatibility with existing 64-bit x86 and Intel and Linux binaries.

Unless a country is a superpower, it’s not easy to attract the world’s attention. For a small country to get the support of other nations and peoples, it needs something unique, something that’s the best in the world.

Tachyum is partnering with M Computers, an IT services provider based in the Czech Republic, to bring its Prodigy high-capacity data processing technology to commercial, industrial and scientific research organisations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

The numbers raised eyebrows and skeptics have questioned those claims, but the company’s CEO Radoslav Danilak isn’t perturbed. In an interview with HPCwire, he acknowledged delays and hopes to get working chips to partners by the end of the year, with customers getting it sometime next year.

Picking the right processor for the job may soon be a simpler decision for many design engineers, even in high–performance computing (HPC), data analytics, 5G network processing, and artificial–intelligence and machine–learning operations. Rather than deciding to implement a CPU or GPU, a monolithic device may now be an option in the form of Prodigy, a universal processor developed by Tachyum. Prodigy combines the functionality of a CPU and GPU into a single architecture.

The “Prodigy” chipmaker said it had been accepted as an associated SME member of ETP4HPC, an industry-led non-profit association set up to drive the economic and societal benefits of HPC for European science and industry.

By partnering with private companies like Tachyum, KInIT aims to create a healthy research ecosystem that connects academia, private organizations, public sector and above all the international community.

The startup is close to taping out its “universal” processor, branded Prodigy, which aims to deliver industry-leading performance on server, supercomputer, and AI workloads.

A very interesting generation of processors, even if they are aimed at the professional sector, because they confirm that there is much life beyond the classic x86 designs.

The Tachyum Prodigy T16128-AIX, which is the top-of-the-range processor within this new generation of high-performance Tachyum CPUs, can work without problem in configurations of two and four sockets, uses a totally customized architecture that is able to work without problem in x86, ARM and RISC-V environments, and also with FP64, FP32, TF32, BF16, INT8 and FP8 operations.

Startup Tachyum has reportedly created one of the most powerful processors in the world: the Prodigy T16128 general-purpose processor.

With 128 64-bit CPU cores running at up to 5.7GHz, 16 DDR5 memory controllers and 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes, the Prodigy T16128 can handle general-purpose computing, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI workloads, all on a single chip realized above.

Prodigy is known as the world’s first Universal Processor. CPU, GPU and TPU tasks can be performed on the same chip, and it can run native and x86, Arm and RISC-V binaries, providing cost savings and high performance computing power compared to competing products.

If there’s one word to describe Tachyum’s Prodigy CPUs which feature a universal processor design, that would be insanity. Initially announced all the way back in 2018, the CPUs are now nearing their launch as the company has listed several Prodigy SKUs and beginning to take pre-orders for evaluation kits.

When Tachyum unveiled the concept of its Prodigy Universal Processor at Hot Chips 18, it made quite a splash with a chip designed to run any code using a dynamic binary translator. It demonstrated high performance when executing both native and translated code.

Tachyum’s new Prodigy T16128-AIX CPU: 128 cores @ 5.7GHz with 16-channel DDR5-7200, PCIe 5.0 x64 lanes, 950W insanity CPU.

Faster and more efficient than the competition: Tachyum promises a lot with the Prodigy CPU, and the CEO goes even further in this interview.

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Le processeur Prodigy se démarque par sa polyvalence, en combinant les fonctions d’un CPU, d’un GP-GPU et d’un TPU. Le slovaque, qui en est à l’origine, s’attaquera au marché du calcul intensif l’an prochain.

Tachyum’s Prodigy Evaluation Platform provides a high-performance server in a standard 2U air cooled form factor that enables customers across a broad range of market segments to test and evaluate cutting-edge Prodigy Universal Processors.

Startup, Tachyum, launched its universal processor, Prodigy, that the company says unifies the functionality of a CPU, GPU and TPU in a single processor, while delivering massive performance improvements at a cost many times less than competing products.

The wait is almost over and Tachyum has formally launched Prodigy, which is described as “the world’s first universal processor.” The underlying idea is that people are currently using different types of processors to perform different types of tasks — central processing units (CPUs) for general-purpose processing, graphics processing units (GPUs) for graphics and hardware acceleration of algorithms that process large blocks of data in parallel, and AI accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. What Prodigy does is to unify the functionality of a CPU, GPU, and TPU into a single architecture that’s implemented on a single monolithic device.

Tachyum Inc. announced two rack-based reference designs that deliver significantly more performance at dramatically lower power than the most powerful supercomputers available today, to better facilitate cloud, AI and supercomputing applications at unprecedented TCO savings.

Almost since the birth of data centers, operators have single-mindedly concerned themselves with performance numbers, but right now, that focus is being split into other priorities like cost reduction and environmental responsibilities that were on the sidelines before.

Unknown to the general public, the company Tachyum has just announced a range of processors that it presents as revolutionary being the " first universal processors in the world “.

Tachyum’s very special processor, named Prodigy, offers unprecedented performance and manages to do almost every job on its own.

Tachyum debuted a processor that combines the functionality of a CPU, GPU, and TPU in a homogeneous architecture. The Prodigy processor incorporates 128 high-performance unified 64-bit cores running up to 5.7 GHz, 16 DDR5 memory controllers, and 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes.

However, we get a more specific idea thanks to the list of supported data formats: FP64, FP32, TF32, BF16, Int8, FP8 and TAI, while the chip contains 1024-bit vector and 4096-bit matrix units and handles 4 out-of-order instructions per clock.

The 3nm Prodigy 2 design will add the CXL memory interface and PCIe 6.0 lanes from the same IP suppliers and increase the number of cores. The plan is for samples in 2H24 and this has already been funded as a key European project says Danilak.

Prodigy is significantly better than the best-performing processors currently available in hyperscale, HPC and AI markets.

The wait is finally over and the US-startup Tachyum has now launched its Prodigy universal processor which combines the functionality of a CPU, GPU and TPU in a single processor.

FPGA specialist Tachyum has made an outlandish claim this week, by declaring its new Prodigy line of reprogrammable silicon as the “first universal processor.” With big performance claims to boot, the Prodigy FPGA is being positioned to target all manner of data center workloads, with video being a key use case.

Unlike other CPU and GPU solutions, Tachyum’s Prodigy was designed to handle matrix and vector processing from the ground up, rather than as an afterthought.

Tachyum has created Prodigy T16128, a processor designed to carry out any type of workload, from general-purpose computing to high-performance computing (HPC) and AI.

Tachyum has launched a processor which combines the functions of a CPU, GPU and TPU.

The specifications of Tachyum’s Prodigy CPU are truly mind-boggling. The flagship variant comes with 128 64-bit CPU cores that can hit speeds of up to 5.7GHz. As can be seen from the specs, this is a processor you may find in places that require high-performance computing.

A processor that can do HPC, AI, and Machine Learning all on one chip!

Running all of these different HPC workloads inside a single chip could drastically change the server landscape: Companies would be able to pack many more chips into a server farm with lower power requirements and less cooling.

Prodigy is significantly better than the best-performing processors currently available in hyperscale, HPC and AI markets.

Prodigy is significantly better than the best-performing processors currently available in hyperscale, HPC and AI markets.

Unlike other CPU and GPU solutions, Tachyum’s Prodigy was designed to handle matrix and vector processing from the ground up, rather than as an afterthought.

Prodigy is significantly better than the best-performing processors currently available in hyperscale, HPC and AI markets.

Prodigy is significantly better than the best-performing processors currently available in hyperscale, HPC and AI markets.

Prodigy is significantly better than the best-performing processors currently available in hyperscale, HPC and AI markets.

Tachyum today announced new IP suppliers who have provided the company with critical IP components needed to bring Prodigy to commercial markets in 2022. They include Alphawave and Rambus IP.

Tachyum™ today announced new IP suppliers who have provided the company with critical IP components needed to bring Prodigy™ to commercial markets in 2022. They include Alphawave and Rambus IP.

Successfully running code interactively proves the stability of the system and allows the company to move forward with additional testing before advancing to tape out and sampling later this year.

“By joining UCIe and having Prodigy be part of its emerging chiplet ecosystem, we are creating a system that allows the mixing and matching of the best, proven components from multiple vendors to speed up adoption. We are excited to be among the UCIe members driving integration within the package.”

Tachyum plans to use the mature chip-to-chip technology for its Prodigy 2 processor at the 3nm level. Multi-die connectivity will play an essential role in both significantly increasing performance of Prodigy 2, as well as increasing the range of performance points and applications Prodigy 2 would be used for.

The AI revolution is creating a tsunami of change that is sweeping through virtually every sector of the economy, both public and private, and it’s having a profound impact on our daily lives.

The ticketing system also helps Tachyum’s developers monitor progress of Prodigy testing, identify what users need, and provide fast responses.

“It’s important that Tachyum takes an increasingly active role in ecosystems for next-generation computing, because the Prodigy Universal Processor will be the centerpiece of tomorrow’s supercomputing projects, AI/ML, hyperscale cloud, and other innovations,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO of Tachyum. “To a large extent we were driven to create Prodigy to address the runaway electrical power costs of running large data centers, AI, and high-performance computing requirements, and the OSFP is aligned with those goals too.”

With virtualization, Prodigy enables resource partitioning and management, device virtualization (e.g. shared USB port), and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) allowing a single VM to use two or more processors simultaneously. Tachyum additionally provides advanced security to hosted virtual machines. This latest advancement in KVM virtualization is in addition to Tachyum’s IOMMU and other hardware virtualization that is being proven in hardware.

“These improvements will allow for quick and seamless integration of technologies into Tachyum-based environments when deployed in data centers. As we near volume production of Prodigy, it is imperative that our software provides the tools supercomputers require to transform the industry.”

“These improvements will allow for quick and seamless integration of technologies into Tachyum-based environments when deployed in data centers. As we near volume production of Prodigy, it is imperative that our software provides the tools supercomputers require to transform the industry.”

Tachyum was highlighted as one of the “Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Solutions Providers to Watch” by The Enterprise World and earned the featured cover story with an in-depth discussion about the company, its leadership, vision of the industry and the AI attributes of its Prodigy™ universal processor.

Professor Thomas Lippert, director of JSC states: ‘It is one of our guiding principles to collaborate with innovative processor developers worldwide. Prodigy was designed to largely avoid silicon underutilisation, which is what makes the processor so attractive for energy-efficient simulations, data analytics and AI applications.’

Tachyum-powered supercomputers are poised to address some of the world’s most important and challenging problems, including a wide array of global health challenges, as well as the ability to provide real-time language translation from any language to any other language, making the world a true global village.

Under the MOU, BSC can evaluate the Tachyum Prodigy Processor and Tachyum reference architecture for future HPC infrastructure. The signing of the MoU follows Tachyum founder and CEO Dr. Radoslav Danilak’s visit to BSC in October last year.

“It is quite an honour to be recognized for my work in advancing RISC technology in general, and the ARM processor specifically, by the NAE in bestowing on me the prestigious Draper Prize for Engineering,” said Furber. “I believe that many of the advances we were able to make in forwarding this work are being carried on at innovative companies such as Tachyum, which is leveraging low-power, high-performance chips to enable human brain-scale AI to revolutionize the world.”

Tachyum’s ME expansion plans were launched in January at Expo 2020 Dubai where it presented its Prodigy Universal Processor for supercomputers. LEAP22 continues the company’s efforts to participate in the most important events in this region.

Tachyum will show the impact of its groundbreaking technology and potential solutions for industries such as oil and gas, telecommunications, finance, healthcare, and many others that address current global concerns in mobility, sustainability, global health, and climate change.

Processor starup Tachyum Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has been selected by the Slovak Republic to participate in a submission to receive funding under Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI).

According to Europe 2020’s economic strategy, IT is one of the key drivers for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Its ability to transform the structures and dynamics of European society enables people to organize their lives and businesses in new ways, manage information and learn throughout their lives, and contribute to the pool of online knowledge. Because of the importance of these projects, pan-European research and innovation, like that in which Tachyum has been invited to participate, represent an advancement of common European interests.

Any way you slice it, the explosive growth in AI technology means that consumers, corporations and government agencies will soon be able to exploit highly advanced AI systems in order to create life experiences that we can only dream of today. Human brain-scale computing is now looming on the horizon, and it could change your life more than electricity.

Tachyum, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, will host the event featuring an in-depth discussion on the importance of AI and supercomputers, which will reach human brain-scale AI in 2022.

Tachyum participated in CEO Roundtable on Semiconductors organized by the European Commission. Founder and CEO of Tachyum, Dr. Radoslav Danilak, discussed semiconductor policies with leading companies and research organizations. The event was organized in preparation for the European Chips Act. Tachyum was the only representative from the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

The company achieved significant milestones in the development of Prodigy through a series of technical innovations, continued its visionary leadership with presentations at leading industry events and being the recipient of several top honors, ramped up its worldwide hiring and tripled its valuation after its latest successful funding round.