FPGA specialist Tachyum has made an outlandish claim this week, by declaring its new Prodigy line of reprogrammable silicon as the “first universal processor.” With big performance claims to boot, the Prodigy FPGA is being positioned to target all manner of data center workloads, with video being a key use case. Of course, Faultline is pretty familiar with such grand claims, and we are used to sifting through some very dubious press releases. Tachyum, thankfully, does not fall into that camp. CEO and co-founder Radoslav Danilak talked us through the road that led to the Prodigy. The concept behind the universal processor is one that can properly handle the three main silicon approaches needed in enterprise workloads – CPU, GPU,…