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The Tachyum team tested and verified vector operations, 8-bit integer matrix operations for image classification using a Resnet model with custom convolution and linear operators on Prodigy.

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.

In this article, we explore the top chiplet manufacturers that are driving this shift in the semiconductor landscape, pushing the boundaries of innovation and enabling the next generation of high-performance, energy-efficient devices.

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.

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.

After completing testing of Linux 6.8 and applications in QEMU software emulation, Tachyum’s move to the 64KB page size is expected to yield up to 10-15% better performance than 4KB pages depending on the application.

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 recently announced the opening of new offices in Brno, Czech Republic, marking a significant step forward in its growth strategy. This expansion aims to strengthen the company’s capabilities as it approaches the final stages of its Prodigy Universal Processor Chip development.

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.

Tachyum has recently taken a significant step by joining the Turkish Chamber Las Vegas, enhancing its engagement with the Turkish market and extending its reach in the global business landscape.

Tachyum said this week it had completed the final build of its Prodigy FPGA emulation system, which is an important milestone for any design.

Tachyum today announced the final build of its Prodigy FPGA emulation system in advance of chip production and general availability next year.

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.

Tachyum provided support for BF16 for use with GCC 13.2 (GNU Compiler Collection) and tested the software integration of BF16. Tachyum supports the same floating-point BF16 operations as IEEE FP32 and FP64 in hardware.

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.

Tachyum is currently extending beta access, and when completed, upstreaming will be performed. Once upstreamed, machines will be available first for close OSS partners of Tachyum.

Tachyum has enabled an Instruction Profiling Unit (IPU), a low overhead way to collect the profile of non-instrumented executed code, to its Prodigy Universal Processor. The IPU is used by hyperscalers to profile applications in production execution and recompile code to gain better performance.

Tachyum 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 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.

These latest improvements are a further indication that Tachyum’s Prodigy® hardware continues to mature through its development stages prior to its public release.

Universal processor designer Tachyum has moved its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to beta and added RAID 1 redundant storage capabilities.

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. This functionality is important for organizations with hundreds to thousands of servers.

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.

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.

Providing Git access helps enable quick, easy, out-of-the-box testing and evaluation for customers and partners using their existing ISA prior to running their applications natively on Prodigy.

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.

Designed from the ground up, Tachyum’s comprehensive RAS strategy encompasses multiple facets at the silicon, platform and system levels to ensure Prodigy deployments provide high performance along with high reliability and availability at all levels.

Prodigy can provide Double Error Correction and Triple Error Detection (DECTED), which is a key feature to improving uptime, and is complemented by EDAC to enable preventative maintenance.

By detecting and seamlessly correcting errors caused by external events in the CPU’s internal memory blocks and attached DDR modules, Prodigy can run prolonged workflows without interruption to maintain and improve uptime of systems deployed at scale.

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.

Tachyum on Tuesday announced that it will offer 1U and 2U server reference designs based on its Prodigy processors to OEMs and ODMs to enable them to quickly evaluate the 192-core Universal Processor and build their own machines using the new chips. The company plans to sample these server reference designs in Q1 2025, following its planned start of Prodigy chip production in Q2 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.

CPU startup Tachyum has previously said that one of its Prodigy Universal Processor units could rival dozens of Nvidia H200 GPUs. The 192-core 5nm processor delivers 4.5x the performance of the best processors for cloud workloads and claims to be six times more effective than GPUs for AI.

Now the company has announced the Prodigy ATX Platform, an AI workstation that promises to run advanced AI models for just $5,000. The ambitious system, which features an impressive 1TB of memory, is designed to make advanced AI models accessible to a wider audience.

Dr. Danilak believes generative AI will become essential much sooner than expected, making AI crucial for websites, chatbots, and other tools. He thinks Prodigy’s capabilities will make running LLMs easier and cheaper than current CPU + GPU setups, giving smaller players a chance in the AI game.

Prodigy ATX Platform aims to make sophisticated AI models accessible to a wider audience

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.

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 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.

Tachyum to offer Prodigy ATX Platform.

The 5nm Prodigy processor can dynamically switch between AI, HPC, and cloud workloads and costs $23,000

As Tachyum approaches large-scale production for the Prodigy processor, Danilak is enthusiastic about realizing the company’s mission to evolve traditional data centers into Universal Computing Centers in the near future. This transformative endeavor aims to deliver unmatched processing capabilities, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness to meet the growing demands for high-performance computing across industries.

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.
• Increased Business Development – With the final reference chip available, Tachyum will target early adopter markets, including high performance computing and artificial intelligence applications.

Tachyum diligently worked throughout 2023 to ensure that it is positioned at the precipice of success for the coming year. Achievements in hardware and software, advancements in IP component technology and a major purchase order to build a large-scale system were key contributing factors that are expected to benefit the company’s upcoming year.