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Tachyum®, creator of Prodigy®, the world’s first Universal Processor, today released a white paper that presents how Tachyum’s customers planning to build a new HPC/AI supercomputer data centers far exceeding not only the performance of existing supercomputers but also the target performance for next-generation systems.

Built from the ground up to provide the highest performance and efficiency, Prodigy’s revolutionary new architecture enables supercomputers to be deployed in fully homogeneous environments, providing simple development, deployment and maintenance. The solution is ideally suited for OpenAI, others like Microsoft Azure, CoreWeave, Ori, etc. and research facilities needing AI datacenters that today do not have the system architecture capable of serving all interested customers.

Key to Prodigy’s exceptional performance is its vector unit, boasting two pipelines with a 1024b-wide data path. Executing 2x1K SIMD operations per cycle, Prodigy delivers an outstanding 32 double precision Fused IEEE floating-point multiply-add operations per cycle, resulting in 64 double precision floating-point operations per core.

Vector instructions have been verified running cleanly on the Prodigy FPGA, including vectorization in GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), libraries, Linux-supporting vectors, as well as running applications and delivering the correct results.

Tachyum® today announced that it has completed development of the software stack for the Prodigy® Universal Processor and has now entered the alpha testing phase in preparation of chip production and distribution planned for next year.

The Prodigy software distribution is a completely integrated software stack and package that is ready for deployment “as is.” It is available as a single pre-installed image for Tachyum’s early adopters and customers.

AI systems built on Prodigy universal chips with 256PB DDR5 DRAM (Dynamic Access Random Memory) using FP8 (8-bit floating point) and 4-bit Tachyum AI (TAI) data formats can fit up to 100 quadrillion parameter models. It can serve more than 150,000x ChatGPT models or 610,000x PALM2 models and represents huge possibilities for using LLM as a mainstream technology in various industries from retail and e-commerce, marketing, finance, cyber security, military to healthcare including faster drug development or practical implementation of personalized medicine in hospitals.

Tachyum previously announced that it had completed FreeBSD porting. Applications for FreeBSD have now been added to the Quality Assurance (QA) testing timeline, which have been made a priority with the addition of FreeBSD to the FPGA prototype, in order to further satisfy customer demand.

Tachyum® today announced that the FreeBSD operating system is now running on the Prodigy® FPGA prototype as part of efforts to ensure that customer requirements are met prior to tape-out of the world’s first universal processor. This announcement follows Tachyum successfully running the Linux OS as part of its emulation system.

Tachyum’s mission statement is an ambitious one – to make a chip that can support AI with the same scale and processing power as a human brain, and then some.

Tachyum’s first chip Prodigy hasn’t even taped out - let alone gone into mass production - but one customer has, we’re told, committed to buying hundreds of thousands of the processors to power a massive 50 exaFLOPS supercomputer. Compared to the largest supercomputers in the US, the machine detailed by Tachyum is much, much larger.

Tachyum has reached a key milestone in its bid to unseat several industry heavyweights

Tachyum, a Slovak/US company, has revealed its groundbreaking supercomputer, expected to be operational by 2025, boasting an astonishing 50 exaFLOP performance, setting it 25 times ahead of contemporary systems.

The Tachyum supercomputer will have over 50 exaFLOP performance, 25 times faster than today’s systems and support AI models potentially 25,000 times larger with access to hundreds of petabytes of DRAM and exabytes of flash-based primary storage.

Tachyum announced that it has accepted a major purchase order from a US company to build a large-scale system, based on its 5nm Prodigy® Universal Processor chip, which delivers more than 50 exaflops performance that will exponentially exceed the computational capabilities of the fastest inference or generative AI supercomputers available anywhere in the world.

Tachyum announced the expansion of its Prodigy software ecosystem with the addition of LLVM for AI and Linux Rust support. This is the latest addition to an already rich and robust collection of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries running under QEMU emulation and tested by FPGA emulation in advance of Prodigy chip production.

Tachyum announced that it is expanding Tachyum Prodigy value proposition by offering its Tachyum TPU (Tachyum Processing Unit) intellectual property as a licensable core.

Tachyum is enhancing the unique value proposition of its Tachyum Prodigy by releasing the intellectual property of its Tachyum TPU (Tachyum Processing Unit) as a licensable core. This would enable developers to take full use of artificial intelligence (AI) that has been taught in data centers while developing IoT and edge devices.

Tachyum, разработчик первого в мире универсального процессора Prodigy, способного работать с любым видом кода, транслируя его в понятный для себя вид при помощи динамического двоичного транслятора, что позволяет ему на лету переключаться между задачами для традиционных ускорителей высокопроизводительных вычислений и задачами для машинного обучения и искусственного интеллекта, сообщает об улучшении спецификаций своей разработки.

This week, Tachyum said that by using the latest electronic design automation (EDA) tools it has managed to squeeze 50% more cores into its Prodigy processor while increasing die size by only 20%.

In a remarkable stride towards innovation, Tachyum has announced a groundbreaking achievement in chip design, propelled by the adoption of advanced Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. The Prodigy Universal Processor, a revolutionary creation by Tachyum, has undergone a transformative enhancement, boasting an astonishing 192 cores, up from its previous configuration.

Slovakian data centre chip designer Tachyum has boosted the number of cores in its Prodigy universal processor to 192 following a move to a EDA provider.

Tachyum today announced that new EDA tools, utilized during the physical design phase of the Prodigy Universal Processor, have allowed the company to achieve significantly better results with chip specifications than previously anticipated, after the successful change in physical design tools – including an increase in the number of Prodigy cores to 192.

Empowered by EDA tools, Tachyum’s Prodigy Universal Processor reshapes chip design by bridging conceptual gaps, enhancing efficiency, and unveiling exceptional chip specifications.

Tachyum has upgraded the specs of its Prodigy HPC CPU by 50% which was made possible with the help of new EDA tools.

After RTL design coding, Tachyum began work on completing the physical design (the actual placement of transistors and wires) for Prodigy. After the Prodigy design team had to replace IPs, it also had to replace RTL simulation and physical design tools. Armed with a new set of EDA tools, Tachyum was able to optimize settings and options that increased the number of cores by 50 percent, and SERDES from 64 to 96 on each chip.

The Government of Odisha delegation today held discussions with senior leadership of semiconductor companies and Venture Capital firms, attended a major deep-tech roundtable, and interacted with the youth of Silicon Valley.

Tachyum announced today the release of the white paper, “Tachyum Prodigy – Solution for Data Centers that are Hungry for Energy,” explaining how Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor, is ideally suited to help overcome increasingly excessive energy use in data centers.

Tachyum™ announced today the release of the white paper, “Tachyum Prodigy – Solution for Data Centers that are Hungry for Energy,” explaining how Prodigy®, the world’s first Universal Processor, is ideally suited to help overcome increasingly excessive energy use in data centers.

Tachyum, the company behind the world’s first Universal Processor, Prodigy, announced a major milestone today as it nears completion of software packages for customers and OEM/ODM partners.

Nvidia has emerged as the leader in powering the early days of the artificial-intelligence revolution, but rivals big and small are looking to close the gap.

Tachyum received a €26.4M (~$28.5M) grant from the European Commission. Tachyum develops a processor architecture that combines the functionality of CPU, GPGPU, and TPU into a single chip.

Tachyum has completed Floating-Point Unit (FPU) verification for Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor, having passed all tests to ensure Prodigy adheres to industry computation standards of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Prodigy passed the package of tests-more than 24,000,000 in all-in RTL simulation and on Prodigy FPGA prototype hardware.

Tachyum is one of 56 companies from 14 European Union countries selected to share in an up to 8.1 billion euro (~US$8.7 billion) public grant as part of a recently announced Important Project of Common European Interest in Microelectronics and Communication Technologies (IPCEI ME/CT).

Key Players:

• Belkin International, Inc.
• Fujitsu Ltd.
• Network Technologies Inc.
• D-Link Corporation
• Dell Inc.
• …
• Tachyum

Netiotek currently sold to India, Central and Eastern Europe and other countries with its own brand, hit it off with Tachyum s.r.o, a Slovak chip designer.

The American-Slovak startup Tachyum is developing the world’s first Universal Processor, which promises to speed up data processing and AI learning and help construct a new supercomputer in Slovakia.

In the white paper, Tachyum demonstrates the optimality of the FP8 format for quantizing deep neural networks including weights, activations and gradients, exploiting the fact that floating point numbers provide better coverage than 8-bit integer data type.

FP8 is essential for being able to do more with less. It achieves much higher performance at much lower power consumption and chip area than legacy technology like BFLOAT16.

Tachyum Prodigy is on the Ian Cutress’ list in AI Hardware Show.

Tachyum announced that with Register Transfer Level (RTL) design wrapping up, the Tachyum design team is now focused on completing the physical design for Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor.

Tachyum reveals new 20 Exa-Flop & 10 AI Zetta-Flop supercomputer designs, offering up to 30 times the expected performance targets of the United States Department of Energy.

Tachyum now tries to sell a 20 ExaFLOPS/10 AI ZettaFLOPS supercomputer design.

The Slovak innovation hub is still developing, ranking 58th on the Global Startup Ecosystem Index in 2022 and 15th in Eastern Europe. However, the country’s location, strong technology infrastructure, stable economy, and skilled workforce make it an ideal place for Slovak tech startups.

Tachyum™ announced today it has strengthened its presence in the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) organization that develops and supports the chiplet ecosystem and in-package innovations. The UCIe community fosters collaboration among leaders in semiconductors, packaging, IP suppliers, foundries, and cloud services.

Tachyum™ today released a white paper, “Tachyum HPC/AI Software Stack Overview,” detailing the software packages offered by the company and supported by its software team that enable software developers to build HPC applications deployed as part of Prodigy®-empowered data centers.

Tachyum released a white paper, “Tachyum HPC/AI Software Stack Overview,” detailing the software packages offered by the company and supported by its software team that enable software developers to build HPC applications deployed as part of Prodigy®-empowered data centers.

Tachyum today announced that Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová visited its Bratislava offices to witness first-hand the progress of the Prodigy Universal Processor, which is in the final stage of development. President Čaputová met with Tachyum founder and CEO Radoslav Danilak and a team of engineers to discuss topics such as innovation, green economy, sustainability and attracting top regional talent.

Tachyum has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreement with Watad Energy & Communications Co. ltd, the leading OT Cybersecurity and AI Company in the KSA and GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region, to bring Prodigy technology to commercial, industrial and scientific research institutions throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the GCC region.

Tachyum today announced it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreement with Watad Energy & Communications Co. ltd, the leading OT Cybersecurity and AI Company in Saudi Arabia and GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region, to bring Prodigy technology to commercial, industrial and scientific research institutions throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the GCC region.

Tachyum today announced it has completed testing and validation of its Prodigy Universal Processor with Kubernetes for hyperscale, high-performance container management. The success of Kubernetes on Prodigy assures Tachyum customers and partners of quick, easy, out-of-the-box testing and evaluation in containerized environments.

Tachyum’s software team deployed its Prodigy emulation with K3s server, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution ideal for testing; two agents; and NGINX, an open-source reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer, HTTP cache, and a web server.

Universal processor developer Tachyum has detailed a storage setup suiting its Prodigy CPU. A downloadable white paper includes both HDD and SSD-based options.

Tachyum announced that it has successfully demonstrated Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) running on the Prodigy Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware emulation system, representing a critical piece of the company’s test strategy and ensuring that Tachyum’s Prodigy hardware is maturing on pace for production later this year.

Tachyum, Inc. released a white paper Tachyum Storage Strategy and Direction for Prodigy Data Center Deployments detailing a storage strategy to maximize system performance and efficiency for Prodigy data center scalable deployments while minimizing cost and management overhead.

Tachyum released a white paper “Tachyum Storage Strategy and Direction for Prodigy Data Center Deployments”. The white paper showcases Tachyum’s system-level storage expertise with a storage networking architecture that offers flexibility and scalability in capacity and performance across any data center.

Tachyum says it has reached an amicable settlement with Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in a lawsuit brought by Tachyum back in the summer of 2022.

Tachyum today announced that the IP components -DDR5 RAM controller and high-performance, low-power DSP-based PHY - incorporated into the Prodigy Universal Processor have allowed it to achieve speeds of 6400 MT/s at nominal voltage for Prodigy chip which provides headroom for expected speeds of up to, or even over, 7200 MT/s.