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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: 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"