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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 2, 2020 – Semiconductor startup Tachyum™ Inc. announced today that it has joined the OpenBMC Project as a contributor to the community seeking to define standards for aSANTA standard Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware stack that will work across heterogeneous systems, including enterprise, HPC, telco and cloud-scale data centers.
BMCs are specialized controllers that monitor the state of a computer or hardware, including aspects such as system health, log events for failure analysis, and a range of remote management capabilities. Tachyum will be among the contributors from across the industry helping to define and create the OpenBMC stack to ensure the greatest access and control to those involved in the management of remotely deployed server systems.
“Though the BMC technology is not a new one, proprietary approaches to hardware and software has made its advancement more difficult as a whole across heterogeneous systems and computing environments today,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, Tachyum founder and CEO. “With Tachyum developing its Prodigy® Universal Processor to serve as a replacement for the majority of existing chips provisioned in hyperscale data centers, we felt it was important to be a part of the community developing standards for an OpenBMC stack that will be adopted by the majority of the industry. We look forward to contributing with our fellow participants on this significant project.”
Tachyum is working to provide its OEM/ODM and system integrators with complete software and firmware for motherboard reference designs, including UEFI and BMC firmware for the Tachyum Prodigy Universal Processor. Enabling fast and wide deployment of the Tachyum technology, which recently achieved a verified physical design of more than 90 percent of the design silicon area, is the key focus of the company.
Prodigy, the company’s 64-core flagship product, is scheduled for high-rate production in 2021. It outperforms the fastest Xeon processors at 10x lower power (core vs. core) on data center workloads, as well as outperforming NVIDIA’s fastest GPU on neural net AI training and inference. Due to its high computational density and I/O bandwidth, networks of Prodigy processors comprising just 125 HPC racks, can deliver an ExaFLOPS (a billion, billion floating point operations per second) of capacity. Prodigy’s 3X lower cost per MIPS compared to other CPU competition, coupled with its 10X processor power savings, translates to a 4X reduction in Data Center TCO (Annual Total Cost of Ownership: CAPEX + OPEX). Even at 50 percent Prodigy attach rates, this translates to billions of dollars per year in real savings for hyperscalers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Since Prodigy can seamlessly and dynamically switch from data center workloads to AI or HPC workloads, unused servers can be powered up, on demand, as ad hoc AI or HPC networks – CAPEX free, since the servers themselves are already purchased. Every Prodigy-provisioned data center, by definition, becomes a low-cost AI center of excellence, and a low-cost HPC system.
Additional information about the OpenBMC Project is available at www.openbmc.org
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About Tachyum
Tachyum is leading the way in delivering transformative semiconductor solutions that provide industry-leading speed, power efficiency and cost. Whether enabling supercomputers more powerful than the human brain or turning everyday data centers into low-cost HPC and AI centers of excellence, Tachyum’s unique approach disrupts markets and industries worldwide. Co-founded by seasoned architect and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dr. Radoslav Danilak, Prodigy, the world’s first and only universal processor, begins volume production in 2021 and targets a $50B+ market that is increasing by more than 20 percent a year. With data centers consuming 3 percent of the planet’s electricity – and doubling every 5 years – Tachyum’s ultra-low power Prodigy is critical for continued data center growth. Tachyum has US offices in Santa Clara, California, and EU offices in Bratislava, Slovakia.
