11月
- LAS VEGAS, November 19, 2024 –Tachyum® today announced its membership in the Slovak-Saudi Chamber of Commerce (SSCC) as part of its commitment to create and expand business connections throughout Middle Eastern markets. This move closely follows several other association agreements that Tachyum has entered to further develop partnerships with various public and private sector entities that support economic growth, trade and investments with the respective regions. SSCC is a non-profit organization established in cooperation with the Slovak Embassy in Riyadh – Saudi Arabia’s capital and main financial hub.
- LAS VEGAS, November 12, 2024 –Tachyum® today announced that it has successfully demonstrated enhanced hardware-assisted sampling running on its Prodigy® Universal Processor FPGA Emulation System, marking a breakthrough in the application of advanced compiler optimizations. Compiler optimizations are critical for enhancing performance, reducing response times, minimizing storage footprints, and improving the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) across a wide variety of modern computational workloads. Among the most powerful techniques employed by modern compilers are link-time optimizations (LTO), profile-guided optimizations (PGO) and feedback-directed optimizations (AutoFDO).
10月
LAS VEGAS, October 29, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced its participation in the China International Semiconductor Expo (IC CHINA), an exclusive exhibition taking place in the China National Convention Center in Beijing November 18-20.
For Europe, China is the largest business partner in the world by a factor close to 2x compared to any other business partner of the EU. Tachyum has Tachyum s.r.o. in Slovakia and Tachyum Czech Republic, s.r.o. in Europe. Participating in EUCCC and IC China Tachyum fulfills stated support of European Union efforts in the semiconductor space and technological sovereignty as well as helping the Slovak government efforts to search for further opportunities for economic cooperation with China.
- LAS VEGAS, October 15, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that it has successfully achieved the desired performance and stability of the Linux operating system and applications running as part of QEMU emulations and will expand all testing and optimization processes of its Prodigy® software distribution to 64KB page size on the FPGA prototype. Tachyum first announced its intentions to move to 64KB page size as the default of its Prodigy software distribution – a completely integrated software stack and package available to early adopters and customers as a pre-installed image as part of beta testing – in June.
9月
- LAS VEGAS, September 24, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced the opening of new positions in Brno, Czech Republic, to support the company’s continued growth as it nears tape-out of the Prodigy Universal Processor Chip. The first hardware engineers who have been hired are starting on November 1. Brno is in the heart of a burgeoning Central European technology region that continues to attract international companies, innovation and talent. As such, it is an ideal location for Tachyum to attract qualified IT professionals interested in unlocking unprecedented performance, power efficiency and cost advantages within the data center to solve the most complex problems in big data analytics, deep learning, mobile and large-scale computing.
- LAS VEGAS, September 10, 2024 –Tachyum® today announced that it has become a member of the Turkish Chamber Las Vegas, a global business hub fostering strong ties between Turkish enterprises and the business community in Las Vegas. This move is part of Tachyum’s continued commitment to expanding and creating strong business connections in the Turkish, Middle Eastern and Central Asian markets. The mission of TCLV is to foster robust economic ties between the Turkish and American business communities by facilitating trade, investment and collaboration.
8月
- LAS VEGAS, August 13, 2024 –Tachyum® today announced the final build of its Prodigy® FPGA emulation system in advance of chip production and general availability next year. As part of the announcement, the company is also ending its purchase program for prototype systems that was previously offered to commercial and federal customers. These last hardware FPGA prototype units will ensure Tachyum hits its extreme-reliability test targets of more than 10 quadrillion cycles prior to tape-out and before the first Prodigy chips hit the market.
7月
- LAS VEGAS, July 30, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that BF16 has been successfully tested and verified operational on its Prodigy® FPGA, ensuring increased throughput for users’ high-performance processing needs. BF16, or bfloat16, is a shortened floating point data type based on the IEEE 32-bit single-precision floating point data type (f32). It is used to accelerate machine learning by reducing storage requirements and increasing the calculation speed of ML algorithms. Tachyum provided support for BF16 for use with GCC 13.
LAS VEGAS, July 9, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that the Prodigy® software distribution package and pre-configured applications will be optimized for 64KB pages for Linux and 16KB Indirection Unit (IU) for solid state drives in advance of QLC NAND flash eventual replacement for HDDs in the data center. This achievement ensures that Prodigy-enabled systems will support future QLC NAND flash, networking requirements and make 16KB storage networking stack much more efficient for 1.6T Ethernet in servers.
6月
- LAS VEGAS, June 18, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that it will begin upstreaming code to the open-source community to encourage expanded evaluation opportunities with the Prodigy platform. As part of the testing process, Tachyum will donate computing resources to the OSS community for expanded evaluation opportunities with the Prodigy® platform. In preparing to upstream to open-source software (OSS), Tachyum has identified and solved many existing issues to improve public utilization and allow collaboration across the community.
- LAS VEGAS, June 11, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that it enabled an Instruction Profiling Unit (IPU), a low overhead way to collect the profile of non-instrumented executed code, on its Prodigy® Universal Processor. IPU is used by hyperscalers to profile applications in production execution and recompile code to gain better performance. This latest enhancement is part of the company’s focus on refining and performance optimization of the Tachyum Software Distribution Package upon its beta release.
- LAS VEGAS, June 4, 2024 –Tachyum® today announced that it has moved to 64KB page size as the default of its Prodigy® software distribution, a completely integrated software stack and package, which is now available to early adopters and customers as a pre-installed image as part of the beta phase of testing. Tachyum completed testing with 4KB pages and 4KB support is now viewed as legacy. The company will instead focus on 64KB pages with 4KB pages only serving as a backup solution for those who have a special need.
5月
- LAS VEGAS, May 28, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that it has successfully integrated the BF16 data type into its Prodigy® compiler and software distribution, which is now available to early adopters and customers as a pre-installed image as part of beta testing. BF16, or bfloat16, is a shortened floating point data type based on the IEEE 32-bit single-precision floating point data type (f32). It is used to accelerate machine learning by reducing storage requirements and increasing the calculation speed of ML algorithms.
- LAS VEGAS, May 21, 2024 –Tachyum® today announced that its Prodigy® software distribution, a completely integrated software stack and package, is now available to early adopters and customers as a pre-installed image as part of the beta phase of testing. Applications included in the beta version of the distribution package have been tested to work straight out of the box so that customers and partners can immediately begin using the Prodigy reference design.
- LAS VEGAS, May 15, 2024 –Tachyum® today announced that it has advanced the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to beta and has added RAID 1 capabilities. These latest improvements are a further indication that Tachyum’s Prodigy® hardware continues to mature through its development stages prior to its public release. UEFI replaces the traditional BIOS as a next-generation interface between the operating system and platform firmware. It is used during startup to initialize the hardware and load the OS.
- LAS VEGAS, May 7, 2024 –Tachyum® today announced that it has added a watchdog timer to its Prodigy® FPGA emulation system to help detect and recovery from device or system malfunction. The mechanism facilitates automatic correction of temporary hardware faults and prevents errant or malevolent software from disrupting system operations. Available as both a hardware and virtualized time, Prodigy’s watchdog is part of a self-healing infrastructure within datacenters. It allows the automatic recovery of servers that hang without human intervention.
4月
- LAS VEGAS, April 24, 2024 –Tachyum® today announced that it is testing Git access to Tachyum software repositories. This latest advancement is part of the company’s continued commitment to releasing all open-source software in order to provide customers and partners with an easy, straightforward platform for early Prodigy® testing ahead of silicon availability while reducing support requirements. Git is an open-source distributed version control system designed to track modifications in source code during software development.
- LAS VEGAS, April 9, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that it has completed testing of full-fledged hardware debugging features of the FPGA prototype of its Prodigy® Universal Processor. This latest capability has undergone testing with GNU Debugger (gdb), a widely used Linux tool for debugging software, to ensure successful operations and is a key component of Prodigy’s continued march towards production. As part of the hardware development process, debuggers are used to search for and identify components that are not operating correctly or are incorrectly configured.
3月
- LAS VEGAS, March 26, 2024 – Tachyum® today added to its extensive white paper library with the publication of an overview examining its Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) strategy, including a detailed look at the key RAS features being built into Prodigy®, the world’s first Universal Processor, which will help satisfy the demands of today’s data centers. RAS is a set of related attributes that must be considered when designing, manufacturing, purchasing and utilizing a computer product or component.
- LAS VEGAS, March 12, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced the addition of Machine Check and Recovery (MCR) capabilities with the Linux Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) subsystem to the Prodigy® Universal Processor with successful deployment demonstrated as part of the FPGA emulation system. MCR with Linux EDAC driver is essential for data center applications, with the pair working together to provide critical information to predict and mitigate failures in the field.
- LAS VEGAS, March 5, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that it is bringing 1U and 2U platform solutions to market behind a strategy that ensures customers and partners will be able to quickly and easily test, benchmark and deploy Prodigy® solutions across a broad range of supported applications and workloads. Tachyum’s platform strategy includes offering evaluation platforms for early testing with OEMs and ODMs able to incorporate Prodigy into their own designs.
2月
- LAS VEGAS, February 20, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that it has added a Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) to its Prodigy® FPGA emulation system, empowering customers and partners with the ability to address bottlenecks and better optimize Prodigy performance for all applications and workloads. The PMU is an essential tool for collecting information about performance bottlenecks. It offers the ability to record a wide range of events that encompass every aspect of the Prodigy Universal Processor without slowing down the application itself.
- LAS VEGAS, February 14, 2024 – Tachyum® today announced that it has upgraded the software stack for the Prodigy® Universal Processor before the anticipated launch of its beta version around the end of quarter. Quality completion of Prodigy’s software stack is a key component as the company continues to advance towards chip production and distribution. Tachyum software engineers have worked hard to enable the full potential of Prodigy with the development of an ecosystem of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries that are ported to run natively on Prodigy hardware.
- LAS VEGAS, February 8, 2024 – Tachyum®, creator of Prodigy®, the world’s first Universal Processor, today released a white paper that details how its Prodigy ATX Platform will democratize AI for those who may not normally have access to sophisticated AI models. The Prodigy ATX Platform allows everyone to run cutting-edge AI models for as low as $5,000. Built from the ground up to provide leading-edge AI features that address the emerging demand for AI across a wide range of applications and workloads, Prodigy’s AI subsystem incorporates innovative features that deliver the high performance and efficiency required of AI environments.
1月
- LAS VEGAS, January 9, 2024 – With volume production of Prodigy®, the world’s first Universal Processor, scheduled for 2024, Tachyum® officials expect to build off the momentum it gained through a series of successes last year while capitalizing on the current semiconductor upcycle to revolutionize the data center. Anticipated company highlights of the coming year include: Advancements in Product Development – Reference design is expected to soon be revealed once the Tachyum team finishes final debugging and cleaning of the chip.
