Tachyum, a silicon valley chip company founded in 2016, recently released a magical processor with super multi-core, ultra-high frequency and very low power consumption. This processor, named prodigy t16128 , is known as the world's first "universal processor". It integrates different modules such as general processor, HPC high-performance computing, AI Artificial Intelligence, DML deep machine learning, interpretable AI and bio AI in a single silicon chip, which can simplify the programming model and environment.
*It has up to 128 cores, 64 bits, out of order execution *, 4 instructions per clock cycle, and each core has two 1024 bit vector units and a 4096 bit matrix unit, supporting virtualization and advanced RAS.
The specific architecture is not disclosed. I don't know whether it is arm, MIPs or self-developed, but it is emphasized that in addition to the native instruction set, you can also run x86, arm and risc-v, which is almighty**
What's more amazing is that the frequency can easily exceed 5GHz, up to 5.7GHz
Officially, HPC has a computing power of 90 tflops (90 trillion times per second), AI training and reasoning have a computing power of 12 PFlops (120 million times per second) , which is equivalent to 2.4 times that of NVIDIA A100, and supports various data types, such as fp64, fp32, tf32, bf16, int8, fp8 and Tai.
The cache has 64KB level-1 data, 64KB level-1 instructions and 128MB level-2 and level-3, all of which support ECC.
The memory supports 16 channel ddr5, the maximum frequency is 7200mhz, and the maximum capacity of a single channel is 8tb
The extended link supports 64 PCIe 5.0 , and two 400g Ethernet interfaces.
Manufacturing process is 5nm (estimated TSMC), 64 × 84mm fclga package, not very large.
It also supports two-way and four-way parallel, which means 512 cores, 32tb ddr5 memory and 256 PCIe 5.0.
Officially, the performance of the processor is better than that of Intel Xeon (there is no specific comparison model), but the power consumption is only one tenth and the unit performance price is only one third.
If 128 cores are not required, there will be different versions of 64 core t864 and 32 core t832 , and other specifications will be simplified.
Tachyum prodigy T series processor expected to be put into production next year , wait and see the running score.
