I don't remember I have heard of this company before! Tachyum attempts to fuse CPU, GPU and AI accelerator architectures/functionality into one chip. Very exciting!
More competition for Intel and Nvidia is good! Let's see what happens when the dust settles and after the hype goes quieter ...
"... May 2020 ... a new type of processor called Prodigy that was under development by a startup called Tachyum. ...
Tachyum has formally launched Prodigy ... currently using different types of processors to perform different types of tasks — central processing units (CPUs) for general-purpose processing, graphics processing units (GPUs) for graphics and hardware acceleration of algorithms that process large blocks of data in parallel, and AI accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. ... CPUs do their best work on scalar values, GPUs do their best work on vector values, and AI accelerators do their best work on matrix values. What Prodigy does is to unify the functionality of a CPU, GPU, and TPU into a single architecture that’s implemented on a single monolithic device. ..."
Tachyum Begins Pre-Orders for Prodigy Evaluation Platform "Tachyum™ [6/1/2022] announced that it will be building a limited quantity of Tachyum Prodigy Evaluation Platforms later this year, featuring fully functional Prodigy processors with memory and application software for qualified customers and partners who pre-order between now and July 31, 2022. Tachyum’s Prodigy Evaluation Platform provides a high-performance server in a standard 2U air cooled form factor ..."
The company: Tachyum Tachyum is enabling human brain-scale AI and advancing the entire world to a greener era, by delivering the world’s first universal processor.
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