Data centers have become the backbone of the digital economy. Data centers have also become invaluable, thanks to growing software tools like AI, and rising interest in research, and of course the massive amounts of data being processed by the ever-growing social media giants. However, data centers are often plagued with a common problem: the need to process multiple workloads (e.g. normal data center workloads and AI training & inference) that often come atextreme costs. This challenge has limited the democratization of state-of-the-art AI processing to large corporations like Google, Amazon, Facebook, among others. Tachyum, with its uniqueprocessor architecture, promises to revolutionize hyperscale data center capabilities to provide for the democratization of AI andDeep Machine Learning for organizations of all sizes.
Tachyum was created in 2016, by Dr. Radoslav Danilak. A visionary founder with over 25 years of experience in engineering, managed to defy the challenges posed by Moore’s law to bring state-of-the-art solutions through Tachyum. Today, Dr. Danilak holds more than 100 patents in semiconductor architecture, design, and processing engines. Tachyum’s signature offering, Prodigy, a Universal Processor for hyperscale data centers, promises to compete and usurp the likes of Intel’s CPU’s and Nvidia’s GPU’s with significant improvements in performance, energy consumption, server utilization, and space requirements.
Prodigy: An Engineering Marvel
One of the key challenges in most established processors is these are often one-dimensional, designed to suit high-end needs like AI processing. On the other hand, Prodigy is the world’s first universal processor, which delivers world-class performance for all different types of workloads. Despite its ability to cater to different workloads, it has managed to beat NVIDIA’s fastest GPU-performance and promises to reduce data center annual total cost of operations by a factor of four.
This is possible as each Prodigy processor core consumes one-tenth of the electricity of standard CPU processor cores for data center operations. Electricity continues to be a major cost-barrier for operating high-workloads data centers, and hence, Prodigy promises to revolutionize hyperscale data center operations.
Tachyum promises to reach a volume production in 2021, and will bring Prodigy’s benefits to hyperscale data centers, with an inventory to support US and EU governments, and other organizations.
Tachyum Infrastructure: A Giant Leap in Analytics
Chip designing is a major challenge and has become the top priority for major technology players like Microsoft, Google, among others. Tachyum’s infrastructure derives its inspiration from working with the world’s largest players to enable a chip of the future. Tachyum’s founder worked as a Processor Architect on products like Sony PlayStation 2, and Tesla and Fermi GPU chips at NVIDIA. This knowledge-based foundation is visible in Tachyum’s visionary processor architecture, which supports data center, AI training & inference, and High-Performance Computing workloads, with the ability to shift seamlessly among those various workloads. For example, when a server is idle, you can switch operations to high-performance AI tasks like training. This makes the chip a priceless asset for government organizations, and large players like Amazon, Alibaba, and more. Currently, the company has demonstrated Prodigy’s ability to run x86 and ARM binaries right out of the box, in addition to its own native instruction set. During testing, Prodigy has made significant performance strides for new and old applications alike, deliveringunprecedented performance.
Tachyum: A Semiconductor Investment for the Future
Tachyum has made giant leaps towards a green future for the data center business requirements. This is a development that is worth taking note of for most businesses around the world. Currently semiconductor manufacturing costs are on the rise. On the other hand, performance advances are incremental, and not fundamentally unique in their element. Moreover, the AI revolution will likely spur the growth of low-cost, high-performance chips for aggregate business needs. Additionally, the costs related to electricity consumption, one of the highest operational costs will likely remain on the rise. For example, today, the data center industry consumes about 3 percent of the world’s electricity supply. Moreover, this demand is likely to increase to 10 percent by 2025-2030. Moreover, data centers have not yet come under the lens of environmental challenges, which await a green response from most industries, and are increasingly on the radar of worldwide organizations. According to Dr. “Rado” Danilak, it is imperative that industry experts in the technology field address this oncoming challenge. Lowering energy consumption and increasing returns from green technology investments is the wisest investment in near future.
A Unique Startup: A Visionary Roadmap
Dr. Radoslav Danilak was teaching at a Slovakianuniversity when a venture capitalist from Silicon Valley offered him an opportunity to build incredible technology. He lapped up the opportunity with a positive mind, and then went on to follow a roadmap as both an engineer and an entrepreneur, that is iconic for its success, and vision. Today, under his leadership Tachyum engineers work on solving some of the biggest challenges posed by physics to bring unprecedented power, and performance to chip design. Dr. Radoslav Danilak has worked with several prestigious organizations including the U.S government and European Union. Today, his Prodigy processor promises to build a roadmap for engineering marvels like unmanned aircrafts, cybersecurity, data analytics, underwater vehicles, and many more. Dr. Radoslav Danilak’s first company SandForce became the beginning of his long journey of unparalleled innovation, and excellence. In 2019, Dr. Radoslav Danilak was awarded the two highest honors in the Slovak Republic, including the Pribina Cross, and the Crystal Wing Award. His achievements have become an exemplary foundation for Tachyum, which has managed to increase processing speeds to previously unthinkable levels, capable of transforming the capabilities of modern computing resembling the human brain, as it is the need of the hour for tomorrow’s technology.
Tachyum continues to face challenges as it works to build additional capabilities and IP. However, the company is making phenomenal progress toward volume production, and release of its impactful product offerings. According to Dr. Danilak, “his team is extremely proud of the word on the street about Prodigy, which continues to inspire the journey to build the world’s first universal processor in the global digital economy”.
