{"id":139851,"date":"2022-05-26T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T02:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/are-you-ready-to-lay-your-hands-on-the-worlds-first-universal-processor"},"modified":"2022-05-26T21:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T02:02:53","slug":"are-you-ready-to-lay-your-hands-on-the-worlds-first-universal-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/are-you-ready-to-lay-your-hands-on-the-worlds-first-universal-processor","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready to Lay Your Hands on the World\u2019s First Universal Processor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yfl6Lu3xQW0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the things I really enjoy is bacon sandwiches, but that\u2019s not what I wanted to talk about here. Another thing I enjoy is watching a startup company evolve from being a twinkle in its founder\u2019s eye to purveying its first product.<\/p>\n<p>Way back in the mists of time we used to call May 2020 (which is two long years ago as I pen these words), Jim Turley wrote a column on the topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eejournal.com\/article\/creating-the-universal-processor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Creating the Universal Processor<\/i><\/a> here on EE Journal. The focus of this column was a new type of processor called Prodigy that was under development by a startup called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tachyum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tachyum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Jim said at that time with respect to the folks at Tachyum: \u201cTheir goals are nothing if not audacious. Prodigy will be faster than Intel\u2019s Xeon but consume one-tenth the power. It will have 4\u00d7 lower cost of ownership (TCO) than current server processors. It will occupy less silicon than an ARM design. It will perform both AI and hyperscale server workloads with equal aplomb. A single version of the chip will scale between 16 and 128 cores, all in the same 6400-ball package. And it will be cheaper than Intel or AMD chips by a factor of three. That last one shouldn\u2019t be hard to achieve. The others? We\u2019ll have to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I really enjoy is bacon sandwiches, but that\u2019s not what I wanted to talk about here. Another thing I enjoy is watching a startup company evolve from being a twinkle in its founder\u2019s eye to purveying its first product. Way back in the mists of time we used to call May [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}