Wednesday, August 14th 2024
Tachyum Builds Last FPGA Prototypes Batch Ahead of Tape-Out
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. Tachyum's software emulation system - and access to it - is expanding with additional availability of open-source software ported ahead of Prodigy's upstreaming.
Additional modifications included in this final build include:
As a Universal Processor offering industry-leading performance for all workloads, Prodigy-powered data center servers can seamlessly and dynamically switch between computational domains (such as AI/ML, HPC, and cloud) with a single homogeneous architecture. By eliminating the need for expensive dedicated AI hardware and dramatically increasing server utilization, Prodigy reduces CAPEX and OPEX significantly while delivering unprecedented data center performance, power, and economics. Prodigy integrates 192 high-performance custom-designed 64-bit compute cores, to deliver up to 4.5x the performance of the highest-performing x86 processors for cloud workloads, up to 3x that of the highest performing GPU for HPC, and 6x for AI applications.
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Tachyum
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's software emulation system - and access to it - is expanding with additional availability of open-source software ported ahead of Prodigy's upstreaming.
- Adding signals between boards to support an increased core count of more than 128 after Tachyum increased the core count to 192 last year
- Minor fixes to support large-capacity DIMMs
- Additional debug improvements
- Modified BMC-UEFI hardware to simplify communication
- Replacement of board-to-board connectors for improved experience
As a Universal Processor offering industry-leading performance for all workloads, Prodigy-powered data center servers can seamlessly and dynamically switch between computational domains (such as AI/ML, HPC, and cloud) with a single homogeneous architecture. By eliminating the need for expensive dedicated AI hardware and dramatically increasing server utilization, Prodigy reduces CAPEX and OPEX significantly while delivering unprecedented data center performance, power, and economics. Prodigy integrates 192 high-performance custom-designed 64-bit compute cores, to deliver up to 4.5x the performance of the highest-performing x86 processors for cloud workloads, up to 3x that of the highest performing GPU for HPC, and 6x for AI applications.
4 Comments on Tachyum Builds Last FPGA Prototypes Batch Ahead of Tape-Out
Funny how it says software emulation system, before it was supposed to be hardware that could recompile I believe, thus the supposed speed up in execution.
That was a scam in order to get as much as possible money from companies who believed the Universal Processor designed by Tachyum would work.
Why somebody needs an "Emulation System", a raw prototype for $20K - $30K (!), which could Not be even rated as an Alpha-version of the system?