PEZY Computing

PEZY Computing was founded in 2010.[1]

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

In 2015, computers using PEZY processors occupied the top 3 slots on the Green 500 supercomputer 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 64-bit 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, incorporating PEZY-SC2 chips.[6]

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 New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to the amount of $3.8 million.[7][2] (¥431 million)[8] 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.[8] In July 2018 Daisuke Suzuki received a suspended prison sentence of three years, for his involvment in the fraud - was found to have played a minor associative role to Saito.[9]

• The name PEZY is an acronym derived from the Greek derived metric prefixs peta-, exa-, zetta-, and yotta-.[7]