Server chip startup Tachyum has been plagued by delays producing its Prodigy Universal Processor, which meshes CPU, GPU and AI-geared matrix units in a single architecture.
At issue here is more than mere allegations that Cadence breached its contract with Tachyum regarding these IP elements. Tachyum alleges shortcomings in these deliverables were the result of sabotage at the highest levels within Cadence — as high as Lip-Bu Tan, who was CEO of Cadence during the span of events Tachyum outlines.
Tachyum claims this created delays that constitute $206 million in lost earnings, which the startup hopes to recoup via the courts, in addition to $27 million for the added costs of finding other companies to add necessary IP on short notice. "The fact that Cadence — a well-established leader in its field — failed on so many fronts involving industry-standard components that its competitors were able to provide and that were merely the most current generations of technology that Cadence itself had implemented in the past, led Tachyum to suspect that the failures were not the result of incompetence but of a deliberate attempt by Cadence to sabotage Tachyum's effort to be first-to-market with a Universal Processor,"...
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