Tachyum‘s forthcoming chip, Prodigy, is poised to power a colossal 50 exaFLOPS supercomputer, with one customer committing to buying hundreds of thousands of these processors. Prodigy is touted to offer 25 times the performance of the world’s fastest conventional supercomputer, including capabilities for AI performance, featuring hundreds of petabytes of DDR5 memory. Tachyum describes Prodigy as a universal processor, capable of running various workloads. The latest design incorporates 192 cores and custom instruction set architecture, clocking in at frequencies exceeding 5 GHz. While offering significant computational power, Prodigy falls behind Nvidia in memory bandwidth but compensates with bandwidth amplification technology. However, the chip still awaits tape-out for production, with a release planned for 2024, followed by full deployment in 2025. The power consumption of the 50-exaFLOPS system remains a concern, but Tachyum is cautiously optimistic about its development. The chip company is preparing for potential risks, such as geopolitical issues.
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