Reply To: Is the Tachyum Prodigy perceived as a potential market threat?

The issue with Tachyum is that their sales pitch isn’t that compelling any more because of new Arm server chips. At best they might have slightly better throughput on a slightly smaller die at slightly lower power, but the Ampere Altra already comes with more cores (soon even 128 cores in the Altra Max), and a 3.3 GHz OoO will be more consistent than a 4.0 GHz Tachyum, especially as the Tachyum only looks 4-wide, even if Tachyum claim to win some benchmarks here and there. 20% differences won’t be enough to steal market share from established architectures.

This is not to say the Tachyum Prodigy isn’t extremely cool. They’ve progressed very quickly and I’m a fan of architectural diversity.