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    December

    1. Bratislava, Slovakia/ LAS VEGAS, Nevada, December 21, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced it has entered into an agreement with another prestigious university in Slovakia. Tachyum will collaborate with Technical University of Košice (TUKE) on optimizations of supercomputer and power efficient data centers, scientific research, and innovations in the field of Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI). Students and teachers will get access to Tachyum’s Prodigy emulation system for selected projects.
      Tachyum and Technical University of Košice Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Collaboration
    2. Bratislava, Slovakia/ LAS VEGAS, Nevada, December 8, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced it has entered into an agreement with Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ) in Eastern Slovakia to collaborate on open supercomputing projects, scientific research, and innovations in AI and Big Data. The agreement brings students and professors a new theoretical apparatus. Tachyum gives them access to its Prodigy processor emulation system for selected projects, and the opportunity to work with the latest world-class HPC technology for open-source public projects and scientific research activities, as well as active involvement in the construction of supercomputer centers.
      Tachyum and Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Collaboration
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    November

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, November 9, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced that it will be demonstrating the advanced matrix operations of Prodigy, the world’s first universal processor, using its software emulation system at SC21 in booth No. 906 of America’s Center in St. Louis at November 15-18. Additionally, Rob Reiner, Tachyum’s Director of Product Marketing, will be a featured presenter as part of the conference’s Exhibitor Forum November 18 at 12:30 p.
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    October

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, October 12, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced the appointment of Pini Herman as its new Senior Director of Solutions Engineering. Herman will be based out of the company’s Santa Clara, California offices as part of an expansion effort of adding talented design engineers to work on state-of-the-art AI processors. Herman has more than 20 years of hands-on technical and managerial experience, having successfully identified new product development opportunities and oversaw full-cycle projects that have driven millions of dollars in revenue.
      Tachyum Hires Pini Herman as Senior Director of Solutions Engineering
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    September

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, September 28, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced the hiring of Robert Cisar and Marwan Ajam Oghli as Business Development Managers for the EMEA region. They are responsible for developing international business strategies and helping the company meet its aggressive production timeline goals for the release and volume production of its Prodigy Universal Processor Chip. Cisar has more than 20 years of managerial experience, leading EMEA departments, projects and businesses with financial responsibility in global corporations.
      Tachyum Expands Business Development Team to Support Prodigy’s Worldwide Rollout
    2. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, September 21, 2021 – Tachyum™ today launched a new Customer and Partner portal to support the needs of those interested in early access to the company’s Prodigy Universal Processor Chip. The interactive resource platform will allow wider access to the world’s first universal processor beyond current partners who have had access to the Prodigy emulation system. Tachyum’s Customer and Partner portal is a gateway to resources about Prodigy, the world’s first universal processor.
      Tachyum Launches Customer and Partner Portal Giving Access to Prodigy Emulation System
    3. Bratislava, Slovakia/ Las Vegas, Nevada, September 14, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced the signing of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with two faculties at the Slovak University of Technology (STU), which will advance fields of study in supercomputing and AI-based scientific research. These will help transform Slovakia from a manufacturing-based economy to an AI superpower. Under the agreements, students and professors at the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology (FIIT) and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (FEI) will have access to Tachyum’s Prodigy emulation system for selected projects and the ability to work with the latest world-class HPC technology as part of open-source public projects and scientific research activities in the field of AI.
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    August

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, August 31, 2021 –Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has successfully executed the Linux boot process on the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype of its Prodigy Universal Processor, in 2 months after taking delivery of the IO motherboard from manufacturing. This achievement proves the stability of the Prodigy emulation system and allows the company to move forward with additional testing before advancing to tape out. Tachyum engineers were able to perform the Linux boot, execute a short user-mode program and shutdown the system on the fully functional FPGA emulation system.
      Tachyum Boots Linux on Prodigy FPGA
    2. Bratislava, Slovakia/ LAS VEGAS, Nevada, August 17, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced increased hiring efforts are underway at its Slovakian offices to support the company’s continued growth as it nears product launch and volume production of its Prodigy Universal Processor Chip later this year. Tachyum plans to use a portion of the proceeds from its recently closed Series B funding round to expand its business development team to meet its aggressive production timeline goals.
      Tachyum Ramps Up Hiring (Again) to Support Company Growth
    3. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, August 10, 2021 –Tachyum™ will soon publish its second quarterly newsletter with an up-to-the-minute look into the progress of the company’s Prodigy Universal Processor Chip, how Prodigy will play a significant role in the emerging human brain-scale AI marketplace and why Tachyum’s continued development success has led to tripling its corporate valuation. The quarterly newsletter keeps Tachyum customers, early adopters, partners, analysts and enthusiasts informed about key company information as the company approaches volume production of Prodigy.
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    July

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, July 20, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced that it has closed its Series B funding round, led by private equity investor IPM Group in cooperation with the Slovak wealth manager, Across Private Investments. The latest monies raised from round will be used to finalize Prodigy as it moves from the successful demonstration of an FPGA prototype to tape-out and then to manufacturing of the world’s first Universal Processor Chip.
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    June

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 29, 2021 –Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has been named among the 10 Hottest Semiconductor Startups Of 2021 by CRN® magazine, a brand of The Channel Company. “These chip startups are working on everything from general-purpose processors that can outperform Intel’s and AMD’s latest to accelerators that can speed up AI and deep learning workloads,” wrote CRN senior associate editor Dylan Martin. “Tachyum is taking on Intel, AMD, Nvidia and other silicon compute vendors with what it calls the ‘world’s first universal processor,’ which it says can replace the functions of CPUs, GPUs and other kinds of compute processors while providing higher performance and power efficiency.
      Tachyum Named One of 10 Hottest Semiconductor Startups by CRN magazine
    2. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 22, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced its return to the ISC High Performance Conference with an in-depth look at progress made in the development of its Prodigy Universal Processor as part of the company’s digital exhibition at the event June 24-July 2. Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO of Tachyum, detailed information about the first universal processor’s architecture, performance and reference design as part of ISC’s inaugural online event last year.
      Tachyum Touts Value Proposition of Prodigy Universal Processor at ISC 2021
    3. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 17, 2021 – Dr Radoslav Danilak, co-founder and CEO of Tachyum™ Inc., unveiled the FPGA prototype of the company’s Prodigy Universal Processor at the GLOBSEC Forum 2021 in Slovakia, becoming the world’s first company with the capability to completely meet the full range of customer requirements from supercomputing to artificial intelligence with a single chip.
      Tachyum CEO Unveils Prodigy FPGA prototype at GLOBSEC Forum 2021
    4. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 8, 2021 –Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has taken delivery of an IO motherboard for its Prodigy Universal Processor hardware emulator from manufacturing. This provides the company with a complete system prototype integrating CPU, memory, PCI Express, networking and BMC management subsystems when connected to the previously announced field-programmable gate array (FPGA) emulation system board. The Tachyum Prodigy FPGA DDR-IO Board connects to the Prodigy FPGA CPU Board to provide memory and IO connectivity for the FPGA-based CPU tiles.
      Tachyum Receives Prodigy FPGA DDR-IO Motherboard to Create Full System Emulation
    5. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 1, 2021 – Tachyum™ today announced it has successfully improved performance, density and power consumption of its Prodigy Universal Processor by a process (die) shrink to 5nm (nanometer) feature size from 7nm. Achieving 5nm enables Prodigy to scale at the speed of transistors, not the wire traces, and reach much higher frequency than previously announced speeds of 4GHz on 7nm. It also enables Tachyum to instantiate 128 cores in a low-cost monolithic die.
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    May

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May, 25, 2021 –Tachyum™ was recognized as one of “The 10 Most Dynamic Companies to Watch in 2021” by Business Talk Magazine and featured in an article highlighting the company’s background, achievements and success in launching Prodigy, the world’s first universal processor. Business Talk is a digital business magazine that caters to CEOs, entrepreneurs, VCs and corporate leaders. A platform for intellectuals and high-level executives, Business Talk showcases prominent companies’ strategies, ideas and stories to serve as inspiration and a guide to readers across different industries in differing domains.
    2. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 18, 2021 –Tachyum™ was invited to present at the China (Shaanxi) – Slovakia Economic and Trade Cooperation and Cultural Tourism Exchange Conference during the Fifth Silk Road International Expo in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on May 11 – 15. Dr. Rado Danilak, co-founder and CEO of Tachyum spoke about how the Prodigy Universal Processor for servers, AI and HPC enables data centers to exceed the capacity of the human brain while drastically lowering power consumption and costs, and how it represents opportunities for collaborative partnerships.
    3. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 11, 2021 –Tachyum™ Inc. today announced the hiring of Rob Reiner as Product Marketing Director and Miriam Madrova as Marketing Communications Manager. The two newly-created positions will help in the positioning and messaging of the company’s Prodigy Universal Processor ahead of its delivery to worldwide markets later this year. Reiner, who is positioned in Tachyum’s U.S. offices, is an innovative leader with experience defining, developing, and marketing advanced semiconductor and system technologies and solutions for the server and embedded markets.
    4. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 4, 2021 – Dr. Radoslav Danilak, co-founder and CEO of Tachyum™, will speak about how the Prodigy Universal Processor offers the benefits of an advanced homogeneous architecture that supersedes current heterogeneous architectures, offering industry-leading performance without their disadvantages, as part of the Innovative Technology Panel at this year’s virtual HPC User Forum May 12. Danilak has three decades of industry experience and more than 100 patents designing state-of-the-art processing systems.
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    April

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April, 27, 2021 –Tachyum™ today announced its membership in GAIA-X, an EU-based initiative designed to create a unified ecosystem of cloud and data services. The company plans to provide underlying hardware to GAIA-X, based on the Tachyum Prodigy Universal Processor, which will make European data centers the most cost- and power-efficient in the world. With GAIA-X, representatives from business, science and politics on a European level, create a proposal for the next generation of a European data infrastructure: a secure, federated system that meets the highest standards of digital sovereignty while promoting innovation.
    2. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 20, 2021 – Tachyum™ Inc. today announced the upcoming participation in the Defense Intelligence Agency, Chief Information Officer, Virtual Summit to be held April 27, 2021. This event marks the launch of the newly established Tachyum Government business entity, where Tachyum officially reaches out to a Government customer to introduce the availability of its Prodigy Universal Processor prototype. Tachyum has achieved engineering proof of performance for all critical core components.
    3. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 13, 2021 –Tachyum™ will soon launch its quarterly newsletter with in-depth looks at how the company’s Prodigy Universal Processor Chip will make a dramatic difference in reducing energy consumption by data centers and from cloud computing initiatives, and what achieving FPGA-ready status means in preparation for Prodigy’s launch. The newly created newsletter is intended to keep Tachyum customers, early adopters, partners, analysts and enthusiasts informed about key company information as the company approaches volume production of Prodigy later this year.
    4. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 6, 2021 – SYLEX, a world-class ODM of high-quality optical interconnect solutions and fiber optics sensing/monitoring solutions, has joined the Innovations for Digital Infrastructure (I4DI), a partnership of innovative global technology leaders that are developing European-based supercomputing solutions to advance the region’s capabilities in solving the performance, power and efficiency issues challenging the industry today. I4DI provides freedom and openness similar to Open Compute to the European HPC market.
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    March

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 30, 2021 –Tachyum™ Inc. today sent the motherboard emulation prototype of its Prodigy Universal Processor FPGA prototype to manufacturing, which, when returned, will be plugged into its recently completed field-programmable gate array (FPGA) emulation Prodigy Processor boards to create a fully functional system, bringing Prodigy one step closer to delivery later this year. The decision to release the FPGA emulation prototype to manufacturing was made based on successful in-house electrical testing results that Tachyum achieved from its Prodigy processor prototype, delivered earlier in the month.
      Tachyum Releases Motherboard Emulation for its Prodigy Processor FPGA Prototype  to Manufacturing
    2. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 23, 2021 – Tachyum™ Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of its Prodigy Universal Processor prototype, built using field-programmable gate array (FPGA) emulation boards. The hardware prototype is currently completing in-house testing before being made available to early adopters. Tachyum’s Prodigy emulation system has been developed in house to offer the best possible accuracy and performance for our engineers to verify the final Prodigy design, and for our customers to begin benchmarking and porting their own application software to native Prodigy code.
      Tachyum Unveils Prodigy Universal Processor FPGA Emulation Prototype
    3. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 16, 2021 –Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it is nearing design completion of its Prodigy Universal Processor, further ensuring that hyperscale data centers, supercomputer and next generation AI system designers, will finally have the disruptive universal computing fabric to deliver beyond state-of-the-art performance. Tachyum’s ability to achieve Prodigy’s 99 percent completion with a stable netlist layout and Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS) implemented is a last netlist milestone before final netlist and its tape-out.
    4. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 9, 2021 –Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has expanded the live production environment that is built upon its own software emulation system for the Prodigy Universal Processor with the transition of Tachyum.us, the company’s dedicated government business website, to the platform. Tachyum.us’ move to the Tachyum emulation platform extends the company’s public demonstration that indicates the Prodigy’s software stack is nearing production quality and serves as a further testament to the quality of Tachyum’s software and hardware that the company intends to utilize it for its in-house needs.
    5. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 2, 2021 – Tachyum™ delivered its first Prodigy Software Emulation Systems to early adopter customers and partners who now have the opportunity to leverage it for evaluation, development and debugging purposes. Delivery of these systems is a key milestone in achieving production-ready status of the world’s first Universal Processor for data center, AI and HPC workloads. Tachyum’s Prodigy 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.
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    February

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 23, 2021 –Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has launched a live production website environment built on its own software emulation system for the Prodigy Universal Processor, marking a key development milestone that allows customers and partners to develop software natively and port applications to run on Prodigy. Danilak.com, a website featuring information about Tachyum and its founder and CEO Dr. Radoslav Danilak, has switched to the Tachyum emulation platform.
    2. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 16, 2021 – Cloud and data center solutions provider InoCloud has joined the Innovations for Digital Infrastructure (I4DI), a partnership of innovative global technology leaders that are developing European-based supercomputing solutions to advance the region’s capabilities in solving the performance, power and efficiency issues challenging the industry today. I4DI provides freedom and openness similar to Open Compute to the European HPC market. The consortium brings together companies in storage, networking, rack manufacturing, power, software, services and telecommunications spaces to help transform the entire EU region from an importer of data center and supercomputer technologies to an innovative leader in research for worldwide AI and HPC solutions.
    3. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 9, 2021 – Tachyum ™ today announced that it is publishing a quarterly newsletter to keep its customers, early adopters, partners, analysts and enthusiasts informed about key company events, press releases and other important information as it approaches volume production of its Prodigy Universal Processor Chip, later this year. Tachyum’s newsletter will summarize key events within the company and provide information that may not be available from other sources.
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    January

    1. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, January 26, 2021 – Comprehensive telecommunications solutions provider VNET has joined the Innovations for Digital Infrastructure (I4DI), a partnership of global technology leaders that are developing European-based supercomputing solutions to advance the region’s capabilities in solving the performance, power and efficiency issues challenging the industry today. I4DI provides freedom and open-source access similar to Open Compute within the European HPC market. The consortium brings together companies in processors, storage, networking, rack manufacturing, power, software, services and telecommunications spaces to help transform the entire EU region from an importer of data center and supercomputer technologies to an innovative leader in research for worldwide AI and HPC solutions.
    2. LAS VEGAS, January 22, 2021 – Tachyum ™ was recognized as one of Business Sight’s 10 Most “Innovative” Companies to Watch in 2021, which was highlighted with a video interview featuring Tachyum founder and CEO Dr. Radoslav Danilak discussing the company’s journey, business approach and the challenges overcome from launch to today. Business Sight is a platform that bridges the gap between businesses and their clients. It adds value to the lives of CFOs, CEOs, CTOs, VPs, AVPs, CMOs, CIOs and other leadership teams that exists in the corporate world.
    3. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, January 19, 2021 – Seagate is the newest member of the Innovations for Digital Infrastructure (I4DI), a partnership of innovative global technology leaders that are developing European-based supercomputing solutions to advance the region’s capabilities in solving the performance, power and efficiency issues challenging the industry today. It joins founding members PosAm, Towercom and Tachyum, and thus the partnership with SAV (Slovak Academy of Sciences) and MIRRI SR (Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic) within National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC).
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