Tachyum's Prodigy Universal Processor Platform aims to rewrite everything we know about CPUs and GPUs

[Redaktion]

Startup firm Tachyum's Prodigy is being billed as a Universal Processor Platform that claims to deliver over 10x performance over conventional CPUs in the Hyperscale Data Center market. The company claims that it can outperform the competition in AI applications and that it needs just about 250,000 of these chips to rival the human brain.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tachyum-s-Prodigy-Universal-Processor-Platform-aims-to-rewrite-everything-we-know-about-CPUs-and-GPUs.313472.0.html

[Sam1]

..if true, this would also make a trillion dollar worth of industry instantly obsolete and doomed.
So yeah, it WILL NOT happen, if for anything, then because of that sole fact alone.

[Vaidyanathan]

..if true, this would also make a trillion dollar worth of industry instantly obsolete and doomed.
So yeah, it WILL NOT happen, if for anything, then because of that sole fact alone.

Yeah, things are a little far fetched at this point. But let's face it... most of the innovation in the CPU space has stagnated.. If Prodigy can do it, the current market leaders will be forced to innovate. AMD is doing its bit to outclass Intel albeit the fundamental know-how hasn't changed much. AFAIK, Prodigy is not aiming to become no. 1 in the market overnight. Innovations in the server/HPC market will ultimately make it to the consumer segment so let's give them a fair chance. :)

[Codrut Nistor]

It's exactly the same mumbo-jumbo as in the automotive industry. We could have had great electric cars for about two decades, but why bother with this new technology when the big brands from the US, Germany, or Japan can still milk billions using the old combustion engine tech? Tachyum might become for the processor market what is Tesla for automotive... at least that's what I hope. They don't need to be on every damn device around, they simply need to prove that their approach works, can be manufactured in decent numbers and for (almost) fair prices.

[Astar]

Yeah right, I'll believe it when I see it!