Tachyum's Monster 128 Core 5.7GHz 'Universal Processor' Does Everything
Tachyum has created one of the most powerful processors in the world: The Prodigy T16128 Universal Processor. The Prodigy T16128 has 128 64-bit CPU cores operating at up to 5.7GHz, 16 DDR5 memory controllers, and 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes, and can handle general-purpose computing, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI workloads — all on a single chip.
Tachyum calls Prodigy the world's first "universal processor," and says it was designed from the ground up to be a multi-purpose CPU capable of running a multitude of the world's most intensive computing applications. Prodigy not only handles all of these different tasks on a single chip, it does so with a power budget that's 10 times lower than that of traditional hardware — and at one-third the cost.
Tachyum boldly claims the Prodigy supercomputer chip offers four times the performance of Intel's fastest Xeon on the market and triple the raw performance of Nvidia's H100 in high-performance computing applications. All while being 10 times more power efficient.
To create such impressive performance within a single core architecture, Tachyum says it built Prodigy with matrix and vector processing capabilities from the ground up — rather than making them an afterthought. Prodigy supports a range of data types, including FP64, FP32, TF32, BF16, Int8, FP8, and TAI, all from the individual CPU cores themselves.
[...] The Prodigy T16128 runs on a 5nm process technology of unknown origin, and operates within a very small (for the power it provides) 64 mm x 84mm FCLGA package. Tachyum says the chip is capable of performing 12 AI PetaFLOPS and 90 TeraFLOPS when it comes to HPC workloads. The Prodigy chip can also run binaries for x86, ARM, RISC-V, and ISA. For some perspective, a single Nvidia A100 is only capable of 5 AI PetaFLOPS.
And, to answer the question posed earlier: from theverge.com
But can it run Crysis? The answer is now yes, no matter what PC you own. Nvidia is bringing Crysis Remastered to its GeForce Now streaming service this week, alongside Crysis Remastered Trilogy, Crysis 2 Remastered, and Crysis 3 Remastered.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @07:38PM (6 children)
All those specs up there and nothing on actual wattage
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:23PM
The wattage is remarkable... on paper, just like the processor itself.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @09:03PM (1 child)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!!!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Snospar on Friday May 13 2022, @06:45AM
+1 Nostalgic
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @10:31PM
Well code-morphing Transmeta and Nvidia's Denver were designed for battery powered devices.
And it's running on a much smaller price that you $55 RPi 4, so performance per watt comparisons are going to be off the scale.
But I suspect it will still generate enough radiant heat to warm a remote Alaskan village in which they put the data center full on the things.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday May 13 2022, @06:15AM
Or price.
My suspicion is that it'll be significantly more expensive than several discrete processors that do one thing well rather than an all-in-one mashup that does everything sort-of-OKish.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday May 13 2022, @03:19PM
"Production starts in 2023, so we should see actual benchmarks of these chips sometime next year."
Which seems to under-estimate how difficult it is to create a bug-free processor. My bet would be "2024/5 or never".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @07:45PM (22 children)
Windows 10?
I have a i7 and it takes a half hour for windows to stop doing all it's background shit. Not usable until then.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 12 2022, @07:53PM (11 children)
That's not your i7's fault. That's entirely on Windows. Try Linux on that machine, especially with a lighter desktop like Xfce, and you'll be absolutely blown way at how quick it runs :)
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:51PM (6 children)
Intel should run an ad cam pain. "Don't blame us! Blame Microsoft!"
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @09:01PM
...afte that they can drink cham pain.
(Score: 4, Funny) by driverless on Friday May 13 2022, @06:19AM (4 children)
Should we blame the government?
Or blame society?
Or should we blame the Intel CPU?
No, blame Microsoft, blame Microsoft
We need to form a full assault
It's Microsoft's fault
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday May 13 2022, @01:46PM (3 children)
"When in doubt, reboot.", is a thing, because Microsoft. Generally the most sane thing to do when you're having trouble with X thing is reboot to see, if that takes care of the problem. Why? Because Windows is Stupid. Once you've got that taken care of, if it's not a peripheral, you can also rule out, "Is it plugged in?", which is a common gotcha. Seriously, even smart people have issues with that sometimes. I turn it on and it works. Why isn't it working? Call IT, they'll figure it out. Ah, I see the problem here, you didn't plug in the label printer. Seriously though, no matter how much wishing, hoping, and troubleshooting you do. It won't work without power.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Friday May 13 2022, @02:13PM (2 children)
It's actually slightly more complicated than just rebooting, specifically you have the three R's of Microsoft/Windows support:
Retry.
Reboot.
Reinstall.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday May 13 2022, @02:28PM (1 child)
Not Three R's. Four R's:
Retry
Reboot
Reinstall
Return the PC for a Replacement
Replace the PC with a new one
Replace the OS with a different one
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday May 13 2022, @02:56PM
Ah, going with the Microsoft counting method, 'eh? Or was that the Monty Python Counting Method? 1, 2, 5! No, 3 Sir! 3! I'm surprised they didn't have a debate about the correction.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Friday May 13 2022, @02:52AM
This is very true. I'm running Fedora 36 with XFCE 4.16, Fedora being considered one of the slower distributions, and it still absolutely wipes the floor with even Windows 7 in resource usage and snappiness.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday May 13 2022, @03:23PM (2 children)
My 4G i7-ish laptop currently has a chromium process that *starts* with memory maps spanning 38GB.
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(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Friday May 13 2022, @03:43PM (1 child)
I use Firefox, which while it doesn't have *great* resource usage, is certainly better than Chromium or Chrome.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday May 13 2022, @03:55PM
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Freeman on Thursday May 12 2022, @07:56PM (5 children)
My main thought is this "Do you have an SSD?", because a lot of that slow loading and junk is due to a very slow HDD. Sure, you'll still have the standard windows bloat, but you won't also be waiting on a spinning platter.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @10:43PM (2 children)
Can confirm. My employer-provided Windows 10 laptop is equipped with a 256GB nvme disk, it takes more than 20 minutes after login for the fans in my laptop to go quiet again. Before that, it's telemetry, antivirus, IT policies, updates, onedrive, and whatnot that's keeping my machine busy.
The only thing the nvme disk adds is that I can still perform some work while the OS is busy pulling itself together.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday May 13 2022, @12:13PM
Holy fork!
What a piece of shirt Windows is!
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday May 13 2022, @01:41PM
Ah, you're partially suffering from Laptopitis, they suck horrifically when it comes to heat management. Yet, here I am using a work supplied Intel NUC, which arguably has worse heat management than most laptops. Fan is going constantly, no matter, if something is happening. Shouldn't take 20 minutes for IT stuff, etc. Sure, Windows Updates can seriously take a good bit of time, but so long as you're not dealing with that, it shouldn't be that bad. It could just be taking the fan that long to get everything cool enough to slowdown, which makes a lot more sense.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @10:47PM
It never ceases to amaze how features that are standard on other OSes remain non-existent on Windows. In this case pretty much every other OS knows not to start every app at the same time, but Windows will happily do so.
(Score: 3, Touché) by epitaxial on Friday May 13 2022, @02:22AM
Windows doing updates makes an SSD feel like a 5400 rpm platter drive.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by vux984 on Thursday May 12 2022, @09:52PM (2 children)
I also have an i7 and i can reboot and be at the desktop login screen in under 30 seconds. And after logging in the desktop is properly usable (all the tray icons and startup items for onedrive, logitech, backblaze, 2 instances of teams, discord, outlook, and other half dozen odds and ends) within another 1 minute or so. My system isn't an antique yet -- 8th generation i7, but that's also not remotely new anymore either.
I expect your CPU is not likely the problem here, and that either you don't have enough RAM, or your hard drive is slow-as-sin, or there is something pretty wrong with your install or multiple of the above. My son runs my old 6th generation i7 and its perfectly snappy too.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday May 13 2022, @01:50PM (1 child)
I have a Ryzen 5 3600 with 16GB(or 32GB I forget how much I ponied up for) of RAM with a 1TB NvME. Sucker boots very fast. It takes about 30 seconds for NZXT CAM (temp/fan monitoring), Discord, Skype, Steam, GOG Galaxy, and a few other things to load. That's with me manually entering the Steam password, so I don't forget it.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday May 13 2022, @01:52PM
The RAM is DDR4 3600mhz, which was pretty sweet when I got it. Now it's a bit more middle of the road.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Informative) by higuita on Friday May 13 2022, @01:22AM
hey, it is your fault... stopping using windows will fix that problem...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by dltaylor on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:04PM (1 child)
If there's not going to be any silicon until 2023, how much of the performance is "expectations"?
We can simulate a great many things CPUs do, but these claims do need some verification. What fab, even in deepest, darkest secure Area 51 is producing 5nm features on 4 cm2 of silicon?
I question the power requirements most of all. How much current does it take to drive a DDR5 interface? A hundred watts? Now run 16 of them simultaneously. PCIe is not free in terms of power, either. Perhaps, which we will see when we can get one, the total power draw of all cores active, running programs from cache, will be 1/10 of 128 cores worth of Xeon or Epic.
In terms of being the "first universal processor", that claim ignores a lot of history. A 68040 could make that claim, since it could run, in simulation, the ISA of every processor available at the time. Itaniums probably could have, since there was x86 emulation to allow Windows binaries to be used, given the dearth of Itanium binaries.
I would bet my house that a Z-series (probably Power) can do it, too.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday May 13 2022, @03:43PM
"is" is not necessary, for the vapourous reasons you mention.
How does it compare to the M1 with moar coars? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1_Pro_and_M1_Max
I can't see die sizes for those anywhere, but they're way bigger than the mobile cores, so 4cm^2 seems possible.
The Ultra variant listed at wackypedia will almost certainly beat this vapourware to market, and that surely must top what you're looking for.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:07PM (3 children)
TFA: "Production starts in 2023, so we should see actual benchmarks of these chips sometime next year."
dnb.com: "Tachyum, Inc. has 30 total employees across all of its locations and generates $5.13 million in sales (USD)."
Conclusion: pump and dump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:13PM
So... pretty much like the 100+ core matchbox CPU a decade ago that never came to fruition.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Thursday May 12 2022, @09:15PM
They are officially selling prototypes to pre-approved partners only.
Planned tape-out of Prodigy platform is already 2 years delayed.
The owner, Radoslav Danilák, worked for Nvidia, and on Tianhe-1A, created two startups already and sold them to LSI and Western Digital. I'd call that industrial espionage.
I do not expect any output to the market, ever. The business is mostly based on milking Slovak government for funding.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday May 13 2022, @12:23AM
"Pump and dump" may be too harsh, but it definitely sounds rather speculative. It's probably VC bait.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:34PM (6 children)
Did I miss this in TFA? Did they mention what instruction set this runs?
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:36PM (3 children)
Digging more deepfully... [tachyum.com] it runs:
Runs binaries for x86, Arm, and RISC-V in addition to native ISA
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(Score: 2) by Rich on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:40PM (2 children)
Haha. Datasheet. "Datasheet!". They have the chutzpah to call their sorry advertising leaflet a "datasheet".
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:50PM (1 child)
Ya wanna data sheet? Herez a data sheet! [baldengineer.com] Note that the Vff pin must be supplied 6.3 VAC.
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(Score: 2) by Rich on Friday May 13 2022, @12:39AM
Clearly recognizable as a joke! They thought of the drain tap, but forgot the cooling water feed.
ps. I was slightly shocked that I figured out what the ff in Vff means before I even read "Vff", by the voltage alone, but I swear I'm not that old, I just, ...er... happen to come across some vintage music gear.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 13 2022, @03:34AM (1 child)
They don't know yet what "instruction set" means. But don't worry, this is not a big issue, it will support any instruction set user wants! Preorder now!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday May 13 2022, @03:08PM
So maybe it could run Java byte code.
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(Score: 2) by MIRV888 on Thursday May 12 2022, @09:48PM
The marketing team is top notch.
Does it come with a free trial cd?
(Score: 2) by datapharmer on Friday May 13 2022, @02:07AM (2 children)
I must be getting old because this just sounds like what Transmeta was claiming 20 years ago. VLIW and 'run any instruction set' code morphing type tech... it checks all the boxes of history repeating itself. I don't know, maybe in two decades of reflection they fixed the lack of memory protection and missing MMU and solved the speed penalty of translation, but I'm skeptical to say the least.
(Score: 2) by jb on Friday May 13 2022, @02:58AM
Didn't ICL have a machine like that way back in the '70s?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 13 2022, @03:38AM
Google Stadia will revolutionze gaming! This is Totally New Idea Nobody Tried Before!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 13 2022, @09:05AM
The F35 of CPUs