After a long wait, USA-based Tachyum has released the Prodigy universal processor, which combines CPU, GPU and TPU functions in a single processor. To develop its revolutionary new processor, the company says it set out primarily to conquer the processor performance space in nanometer-class chips and the systems they power.
The Prodigy Cloud/AI/HPC supercomputer processor chip is Tachyum’s first commercial product, delivering four times the performance of the fastest Intel Xeon processor. It has three times the raw performance of the Nvidia H100 on HPC, as well as six times the raw performance on AI training and inference workloads.
Tachyum believes that with its new processor, it is ready to overcome the problems of increased data center power consumption, low server usage and stalled performance scaling.
Tachyum Prodigy features 16 DDR5 memory controllers and 128 high-performance unified 64-bit cores running up to 5.7GHz with 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes. All that raw power can be easily deployed in a data center as the company develops rack solutions for both air-cooled and liquid-cooled data centers.
Unlike other CPU and GPU solutions, Tachyum’s Prodigy was designed from the ground up for matrix and vector processing, and the new processor covers many different data types including FP64, FP32, TF32, BF16, Int8, FP8 and TAI. supports.
Prodigy contributes to solving the problem of sustainable data center growth by increasing performance while using less power, dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, as well as delivering unprecedented data center TCO savings.
Tachyum’s founder and CEO, Dr. In a press release, Radoslav Danilak explained how the company’s Prodigy processor will help transform hyperscale data centers into universal computing centers: “For a long time, we have believed in our ability to circumvent Moore’s Law to transform hyperscale data centers into true universal computing centers. We started the revolution with the release of Prodigy. Prodigy’s ability to enable artificial intelligence at human brain scale while simultaneously reducing data center power consumption and the total cost of ownership of hyperscale data centers and supercomputer systems is a breakthrough for a projected $100 billion industry. By launching Prodigy, we are not only advancing technology, but making the world a greener place.”
The first samples for Tachyum’s Prodigy will begin later this year, with the processor expected to go into mass production in the first half of 2023.
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