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The Tachyum company has just announced the Prodigy T16128, a 128-core processor that offers enormous computing power at a contained price.
Nvidia and Intel, well-known players in the world of high performance computing (HPC) may have something to worry about. Indeed, the Tachyum company has just announced its Prodigy T16128, a 128-core 64-bit CPU clocked at up to 5.7 GHz.
If you already imagined integrating it into your configurations, it’s a waste of time. It is indeed a high performance CPU intended for computing units. With its 16 DDR5 memory controllers and 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes, it would (according to Tom’s Hardware) be four times more efficient than the Intel Xeon 8470 and three times more efficient than the Nvidia H100.
Impressive Features
The Prodigy would also be the world’s first “universal” processor. That is to say, it can handle both the workloads of artificial intelligence, machine learning, but also the various more traditional computing tasks at levels of requirements that are difficult for the large to imagine. audience.
The processor would also be able, thanks to its design, to handle multitasking, but also a significant number of different data types. Traditionally, processors of this kind process tasks individually, limiting overlap and transferring data from one block to another.
The most powerful chip in the series is said to have the ability to reach 12 PetaFLOPs on AI tasks and 90 TeraFLOPs for HPC loads. For comparison, Nvidia’s A100 reaches (in AI) 5 PetaFLOPs.
A final major argument
Tachyum could have stopped there in its announcement, but its Prodigy range has one last major argument: its cost.
Although we have to wait for the official release and the first tests to be fixed, Tachyum announces a lower purchase cost than Intel, but also lower consumption, which would reduce operating costs.
A double economy that could allow companies to greatly increase their computing capacities without impacting their budget.
64 and 32 core versions will also be available in the range, but the launch date is not yet known. Production of the chips is scheduled for 2023.