2021 BRN Discussion, page-14981

Morning all

What do our more tech-literate Chippers think of Tachyum?

https://www.enterpriseai.news/2021/06/22/tachyum-touts-value-proposition-of-prodigy-universal-processor-at-isc-2021/

“Tachyum’s Prodigy processor can run HPC applications, convolutional AI, explainable AI, general AI, bio AI, and spiking neural networks, plus normal data center workloads, on a single homogeneous processor platform, using existing standard programming models. Without Prodigy, hyperscale data centers must use a combination of CPU, GPU, TPU hardware, for these different workloads, creating inefficiency, expense, and the complexity of separate supply and maintenance infrastructures. Using specific hardware dedicated to each type of workload (e.g. data center, AI, HPC), results in underutilization of hardware resources, and more challenging programming, support, and maintenance. Prodigy’s ability to seamlessly switch among these various workloads dramatically changes the competitive landscape and the economics of data centers.”

If it runs a spiking neural network does that mean a direct link to BrainChip? Or JAST?

Does “ability to seamlessly switch among these” mean CNN to SNN?

Here is their website but I can’t understand enough of the specs etc. so thought I’d put it out there for others more knowledgeable to review.

https://www.tachyum.com