Two years ago we reported that the startup Tachyum announced that it had prepared its flagship processor Tachyum Prodigy, which claimed to have better performance than Xeon and consume only one-tenth of the power of Xeon. However, this article immediately aroused doubts from most

We reported two years ago that the startup Tachyum announced that it has prepared its flagship processor Tachyum Prodigy, which claims to have better performance than Xeon and consumes only one-tenth of the power of Xeon. However, this article immediately aroused doubts from most netizens after it was published.

Now two years have passed, Tachyum has made new moves. Recently, according to foreign technology media tomshardware, Tachyum claims to have created one of the most powerful processors in the world: the Prodigy T16128 general-purpose processor.

Tachyum Prodigy is divided into 64-core (T864) and 128-core (T16128) models. The T864 core frequency is 4GHz and is reported to use TSMC’s 7nm process. 's now more powerful 128-core (T16128) will use a 5-nanometer process, with an operating frequency of up to 5.7GHz, and will also be taped out in 2023.

Prodigy T16128 has 128 64-bit CPU cores operating at up to 5.7GHz, 16 DDR5 memory controllers and 64 PCIe5.0 lanes to handle general computing, high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads - all of which All on one chip.

Tachyum calls Prodigy the world's first "general-purpose processor " and says it was designed from the beginning to be a multi-purpose CPU capable of running many of the world's most intensive computing applications. Not only can Prodigy handle all of these different tasks on a single chip, it does so with a power budget that's 10 times lower than traditional hardware -- and at one-third the cost.

Tachyum makes the bold claim that the Prodigy supercomputer chip delivers four times the performance of Intel 's fastest Xeon on the market and three times the raw performance of Nvidia's H100 for high-performance computing applications. All this while being 10 times more power efficient.

To create such impressive performance in a single-core architecture, Tachyum says it built Prodigy with matrix and vector processing capabilities in mind from the ground up - rather than treating them as an afterthought. Prodigy supports a range of data types, including FP64, FP32, TF32, BF16, Int8, FP8 and TAI, all from a single CPU core itself. The

Prodigy processor could be a game changer when it arrives in 2023. The latest server hardware from AMD, Intel and Nvidia all rely on a single piece of hardware - even within a single CPU or GPU - to perform these different workloads. An example of this is Nvidia's RTX series of GPUs, which require dedicated machine learning Tensor cores for AI work, and dedicated RT cores for ray tracing applications.

Prodigy, on the other hand, will be able to run ray tracing and artificial intelligence applications on a single core without the need to move data to another chip within the microprocessor.

Running all these different HPC workloads within a single chip could significantly change the server landscape. Companies will be able to pack more chips into a server farm and reduce power requirements and cooling.

Prodigy T16128 uses 5 nanometers, and it has not yet been revealed which process it is. The T16128 runs in a very small (for the power it delivers) 64mm x 84mm FCLGA package. Tachyum says the chip is capable of performing 12 AIPetaFLOPS and 90 TeraFLOPS when it comes to HPC workloads. The Prodigy chip can also run x86, ARM, and RISC-V binaries. To put it in perspective, a single Nvidia A100 is only capable of 5 AI PetaFLOPS. Specifically, each core of

can implement 2x 1024-bit vector units, 4096-bit matrix operations, and 4 out-of-order instructions per clock. Virtualization and advanced RAS are also supported. The chip also includes over 128MB of L2+L3 cache with error correction capabilities. To power all its cores, the chip is equipped with 16 DDR5 memory controllers rated at speeds up to 7200MT/s and with a maximum capacity of 8TB per socket. The

T16128 is the flagship model in Tachyum's Prodigy series, which will start producing in 2023, so we should see real-world benchmarks of these chips sometime next year.

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About Tachyum

Startup Tachyum, founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, has just announced that it is ready with its flagship processor, the Tachyum Prodigy, a small 128-core processor that, according to the manufacturer, has The consumption is only 1/10 times that of Intel Xeon. Will this processor become a competitor to Intel and AMD?

The startup has received a $17 million investment from the Slovak government and hopes to create jobs in the country, so it should now be a Slovak company. Tachyum has been able to start production of this processor and a simpler 64-core model, which they plan to have available this year.

Several of the founders of Tachyum are Americans and have great backgrounds. Especially CEO Radoslav Danilak, who has 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He founded the once popular SSD control giant SandForce, and served as CEO himself. It was later acquired by Seagate , and later founded Skyera and continued to research SSD The main control technology was acquired by and Western Digital in 2014.

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