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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 Freeman on Friday May 13 2022, @01:46PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Friday May 13 2022, @01:46PM (#1244724) Journal

    "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.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Friday May 13 2022, @02:13PM (2 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Friday May 13 2022, @02:13PM (#1244729)

    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)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 13 2022, @02:28PM (#1244737) Journal

      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

        by Freeman (732) on Friday May 13 2022, @02:56PM (#1244748) Journal

        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.

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