Tachyum Builds Last FPGA Prototypes Batch Ahead of Tape-Out
13 Agosto 2024 - 9:48AM
Business Wire
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:
- 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
“Reaching this point of our development journey prior to
tape-out and volume production of Prodigy processors next year is
extremely gratifying,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO
of Tachyum. “Our commitment to delivering the world’s smallest,
fastest and greenest general-purpose chip has remained unwavering.
Ensuring this happens Day One of launch has been a priority for us
and we are excited to be on the precipice of this industry-altering
release.”
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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About Tachyum
Tachyum is transforming the economics of AI, HPC, public and
private cloud workloads with Prodigy, the world’s first Universal
Processor. Prodigy unifies the functionality of a CPU, a GPU, and a
TPU in a single processor to deliver industry-leading performance,
cost and power efficiency for both specialty and general-purpose
computing. As global data center emissions continue to contribute
to a changing climate, with projections of their consuming 10
percent of the world’s electricity by 2030, the ultra-low power
Prodigy is positioned to help balance the world’s appetite for
computing at a lower environmental cost. Tachyum received a major
purchase order from a US company to build a large-scale system that
can deliver more than 50 exaflops performance, which will
exponentially exceed the computational capabilities of the fastest
inference or generative AI supercomputers available anywhere in the
world today. When complete in 2026, the Prodigy-powered system will
deliver a 25x multiplier vs. the world’s fastest conventional
supercomputer – built just this year – and will achieve AI
capabilities 25,000x larger than models for ChatGPT4. Tachyum has
offices in the United States and Slovakia. For more information,
visit https://www.tachyum.com/.
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