Tachyum Publishes Prodigy Universal Processor Whitepaper: Up To 6x Faster Than NVIDIA H100 & 30x Faster Than Intel Xeon 8380, Available In 2H 2023

[snappercayt]

Summary

 

 They call it the universal processor as it can emulate x86, ARM etc. 

Main features include: 

1. 128 high-performance unified 64-bit cores running up to 5.7 GHz
2. 16 DDR5 memory controllers
3. 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes
4. Multiprocessor support for 4-socket and 2-socket platforms
5. Rack solutions for both air-cooled and liquid-cooled data centers
6. SPECrate 2017 Integer performance of around 4x Intel 8380 and around 3x AMD 7763HPC
7. Double-Precision Floating-Point performance is 3x NVIDIA H100
8. AI FP8 performance is 6x NVIDIA H100

 

Built on TSMC's N5P with HPC and AI specific features and offers line up from 180W to 900W hitting all major CPU makers at once!

Quotes

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While the Prodigy T16128-AIX offers around 90 TFLOPs of FP64 perf (with sparsity). The company uses an Air-cooled Prodigy rack which is estimated to deliver up to 6.2 PetaFlops of HPC FP64 horsepower versus an NVIDIA H100 DGX POD rack which offers 960 TFLOPs of FP64 HPC performance. The liquid-cooled Prodigy which can sustain higher-end chips should offer over double the performance at 12.9 PetaFLOPs.

 

My thoughts

Heard about this small startup with designing a new chip a while back, they were still a start up I guess and now they making real stuff with TSMC on the back, this puppy will be eyeing AMD, Intel and Nvidia at the same time. Very interesting times for CPU enthusiasts. They promise to deliver these chips in second half of 2023 and sampling starting later this year

 

Sources

 

Read it all here 

https://wccftech.com/tachyum-prodigy-universal-processor-whitepaper-up-to-6x-faster-nvidia-h100-30x-faster-intel-xeon-8380/

 

[ZetZet]

I am getting vaporware/scam vibes here. 47 employee company designing and entirely new chip on a mega scale?  How big of a die size do they plan to use? The whole wafer per one chip? 

[bcredeur97]

software optimization goes a long way towards chip performance, so I wonder how that will go for them. A new chip manufacturer is always cool to see though. 

[snappercayt]

6 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

I am getting vaporware/scam vibes here. 47 employee company designing and entirely new chip on a mega scale?  How big of a die size do they plan to use? The whole wafer per one chip? 

yes! very scammy like indeed but been around for few years now to test that fact maybe? perhaps name like TSMC and samples coming out soon should give us more information about their scammyness haha! I hope they are real and scare Intel and AMD 

[Doobeedoo]

So this is like 1KW FPGA thingy?

 

Good, anything to help Blizzard WoW servers, whatever it takes.

[Sauron]

Sounds a bit too good to be true, and I doubt those performance numbers are representative of the emulated modes

[leadeater]

This will live and die on vendor support and software support. Also without real world reviews from the likes of Serve The Home I simply chose to treat these performance numbers as marketing and not actual performance.

 

I wonder who will actually be the first to put these in, someone that actually matters mind you.

[Heliian]

It's a whitepaper. 

[jagdtigger]

Imagine the bidding war between amd, intel, and nvidia if this chip is anything rhis material makes it out to be....

[PeachGr]

https://youtu.be/m6-juFXR9c0 that's another unknown CPU. Thins is that server chips don't need to be good at million things as game ones, so I guess there are more players there.