"Today Silicon Valley startup Tachyum Inc. unveiled its new processor family – codenamed “Prodigy” – that combines the advantages of CPUs with GP-GPUs, and specialized AI chips in a single universal processor platform. According to Tachyum, the new chip has "ten times the processing power per watt" and is capable of running the world’s most complex compute tasks. With its disruptive architecture, Prodigy will enable a super-computational system for real-time full capacity human brain neural network simulation by 2020. Tachyum’s universal processor offers the programming ease comparable to a CPU with performance and efficiency comparable to GP-GPU, for a universal-purpose processor that can handle hyperscale workloads, AI, HPC, and other demanding applications with ease. A typical hyperscale data center using servers equipped with Prodigy will provide ten times the compute performance at the same power budget. Prodigy will reduce data center TCO (total cost of ownership) by a factor of four; conversely, a Prodigy-based data center delivering the same performance as conventional servers can be built in as small as 1% the space and consume one-tenth the energy." Learn more: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-ivk and http://tachyum.com/ Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter