Tachyum's Prodigy emulator achieves first boot, runs Linux and says 'hello, world'

'Universal processor' startup still no nearer to proving bold claims of tenfold performance gain over Chipzilla, AMD

Tachyum has announced a milestone on the road to finally launching its much-vaunted high-performance "universal processor," Prodigy, with a first-boot into Linux - but its FPGA prototype is still a long way away from proving the company's bold claims.…