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posted by janrinok on Thursday May 12 2022, @07:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-can-it-run-Crysis? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Rich on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:40PM (2 children)

    by Rich (945) on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:40PM (#1244560) Journal

    Haha. Datasheet. "Datasheet!". They have the chutzpah to call their sorry advertising leaflet a "datasheet".

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:50PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:50PM (#1244570) Journal

    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

      by Rich (945) on Friday May 13 2022, @12:39AM (#1244625) Journal

      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.