Prodigy chip brainiacs Tachyum hook up with Euro HPC consortium

Silicon design startup Tachyum has joined the Open Euro High Performance Computing Project (OEUHPC), a consortium that aims to "democratise" supercomputing by building systems along Open Compute Project principles. People looking sceptical Xeon-bashing Tachyum claims its Prodigy CPU will run AI jobs as well as traditional …

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"The chip has fewer and shorter wires than an x86 CPU, due to its smaller, simpler core, Tachyum has said, claiming its compiler makes many parts of the hardware found in a typical processor redundant."

So its Intel Itanium all over again?

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> So its Intel Itanium all over again?

... and the FPU stack.