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PEZY Computing
IndustryCPU design
Founded2010
Headquarters
Japan
Websitepezy.jp

PEZY Computing is a Japanese fabless computer chip design company specialising in the design of manycore processors for supercomputers.

History

PEZY Computing was founded in 2010.[1]

The company's first Manycore processor the PEZY-1 was launced in 2012. A successor the PEZY-SC launced 2014.[2]

In 2015 computers using PEZY processors occupied the top 3 slots on the Green 500 superomputer list - the most efficient was RIKEN's Shoubu computer with 7.03 GFLOPS/Watt.[3][4]

In late 2016 PEZY and Imagination Technologies announced a partnership to use Imagination's 64bit MIPS "Warrior" CPUs together with PEZY's SC2 Manycore processors in future High Performance Computing applications.[5]

In early 2017 the PEZY-SC2 chip was launched.[2] In Nov 2017 the Gyoukou supercomputer was unveiled, incoportatiung PEZY-SC2 chips.[6]

In Dec 2017 PEZY President Motoaki Saito, and PEZY employee, Daisuke Suzuki, were arrested on a charges of fraud - that is - padding expenses claims to Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to the amount of $3.8 million.[7][2] (¥431 million)[8]

In Jan 2018 further criminal activity was reported as being under investigation by the Tokyo District Prosecutor’s Office - that is a further ¥191 million extracted illegally as subsidies.[8]

Notes

References

  1. ^ "Company Overview of PEZY Computing K.K.", www,bloomberg.com, retrieved 22 Jan 2018
  2. ^ a b c Trader, Tiffany (6 Dec 2017), "PEZY President Arrested, Charged with Fraud", www.hpcwire.com
  3. ^ "PEZY & ExaScaler Step Up on the Green500 List with Immersive Cooling", insidehpc.com, September 23, 2015
  4. ^ "国産スパコン"PEZYシステム"がGreen500の1~3位を独占", pc.watch.impress.co.jp (in Japanese), 3 Aug 2015
  5. ^ "PEZY and Imagination team up to develop next-generation HPC systems", www.imgtex.com (press release), 16 Nov 2015
  6. ^ "At SC17, ExaScaler and PEZY Computing Unveil Gyoukou Supercomputer with a High Combined Green500/Top500 Ranking", globenewswire.com (press release), 16 Nov 2017
  7. ^ a b Manners, David (5 Dec 2017), "PEZY president arrested", www.electronicsweekly.com
  8. ^ a b "Japanese supercomputer venture Pezy Computing suspected of tax evasion", www.japantimes.co.jp, 21 Jan 2018