2nm Prodigy Universal Processor Specifications Announced by Tachyum
Tachyum released the specifications for its 2nm Prodigy Universal Processor, a chip tailored to operate beyond a huge scale of AI models at a significantly lower cost and power consumption than the present solutions. The Prodigy is touted as being able to become the first chip to cross 1,000 PFLOPs on AI inference tasks.
Prodigy Performance against that of Nvidia Rubin
Tachyum approaches the direct comparison of future performance with upcoming Nvidia hardware for its Prodigy to become a leader in the marketplace:
- Prodigy Ultimate: Claims a performance gain over the Nvidia Rubin Ultra NVL576 of up to 21.3x in the AI rack.
- Prodigy Premium: Claims a performance gain over the Vera Rubin 144 of more than 25.8x in AI rack performance.
- Inference Performance: The 2nm Prodigy is said to achieve more than 1,000 PFLOPs, which out boasts Nvidia Rubin's power of 50 PFLOPs.
Fueling Next-Gen AI at Lower Price
The processor is made to accommodate models of parameters far beyond that of today's technologies-think of models trained on datasets over a 100 quintillion (1020) parameters. At a projected cost of $78 billion and 1-gigawatt energy, Tachyum sees the solution as being able to do this, where traditional methods will cost more than $8 trillion and consume about 276 gigawatts.
Prodigy SKUs and Core Specifications
To further lessen chip power consumption, Prodigy was upgraded to manufacture from a 2nm process and built using a chiplet design where each chiplet integrates 256 custom 64-bit cores. There will be several variations of SKUs available for different uses:
- Prodigy Ultimate: 1,024 high-performance cores, 24 DDR5 17.6GT/s memory controllers, and 128 PCIe 7.0 lanes will be available.
- Prodigy Premium: Includes 16 DRAM channels and is scalable from 128 to 512 cores for systems with up to 16 sockets.
- Low-End Prodigy: 4 or 8 DRAM controllers with scalability from 32 to 128 cores.
Software, Licensing, and Compatibility
Tachyum will make all of its software open-source and allow other manufacturers to license its memory technology. It is this last feature that should help Prodigy systems really gain acceptance since it will enable such systems to run alongside unmodified Intel/AMD x86 binaries.
Funding and Path to Production
Off the capital raise of $220 million secured most recently by the company, 2nm Prodigy is gearing up for tape-out and production. According to Dr. Radoslav Danilak, co-founder and CEO of Tachyum, "With tape-out funding now secured after a long wait, the world's first Universal Processor can proceed to production." Dr. Danilak continued that Prodigy aims at "supercharging workloads with superior performance at a lower cost than any other solution on the market."
