PEZY Computing is a Japanese

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computer chip design company specialising in the design of

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History

PEZY Computing was founded in 2010. The company's first manycore processor the PEZY-1 was launched in 2012. A successor the PEZY-SC launched 2014. In 2015, computers using PEZY processors occupied the top 3 slots on the

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supercomputer list the most efficient was RIKEN's ''Shoubu'' computer with 7.03 GFLOPS/Watt. In late 2016, PEZY and

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announced a partnership to use Imagination's 64-bit MIPS "Warrior" CPUs together with PEZY's SC2 manycore processors in future

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applications. In early 2017, the PEZY-SC2 chip was launched. In Nov 2017 the ''

Gyoukou is a supercomputer developed by and PEZY Computing, based around ExaScaler's ZettaScaler immersion cooling system. It was deployed at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, th ...

'' supercomputer was unveiled, incorporating PEZY-SC2 chips. In December 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

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(NEDO) to the amount of $3.8 million. (¥431 million) In January 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. In July 2018 Daisuke Suzuki received a suspended prison sentence of three years, for his involvement in the fraud - was found to have played a minor associative role to Saito.

Notes

* The name PEZY is an acronym derived from the Greek derived

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References

{{reflist Coprocessors Fabless semiconductor companies Manycore processors Supercomputing in Japan Technology companies established in 2010 Japanese companies established in 2010 Semiconductor companies of Japan