Scepticism is natural. I wonder …
Tachyum Delivers a Release Candidate of its Prodigy Software Distribution Package Supporting 4x256 Cores
"… The company’s software distribution package combines key advancements to deliver optimal performance for Prodigy. Notable updates to RC1 include the inclusion of GCC 14.2, Linux 6.12, LLVM 19, FreeBSD 14.1 and QEMU 9.11. …"
― https://www.tachyum.com/media/press-releases/2025/02/18/tachyum-delivers-a-release-candidate-of-its-prodigy-software-distribution-package-supporting-4x256-cores/ (February 2025)
Tachyum's 'general-purpose' Prodigy chip delayed again — now with 256 cores per chiplet and a $500 million purchase order from EU investor | Tom's Hardware
― https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@TomsHardware@flipboard.com/115383066573785870 @TomsHardware (October 2025)
Rewind to 2022:
― <https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/unei4e/tachyum_announces_128_core_57ghz_universal/>
I found what's above after closing ancient tabs in Firefox. This was my starting point, a 2018 document:
I probably found myself there whilst weeding this tab from 2022: <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/twwrhi/tachyum_successfully_runs_freebsd_in_prodigy/> and, erm, <https://hc30.hotchips.org/index.html> was for Hot Chips 2018. The end




