Recent #Tenstorrent news in the semiconductor industry

6 months ago
➀ Tenstorrent, Jim Keller's AI chip startup, has closed a significant Series D round worth approximately $693 million. The startup is valued at $2 billion. ➁ The company's AI platform is built on RISC-V cores and uses Ethernet for scaling. ➂ Tenstorrent has around $150 million in closed deals and has received investments from Samsung, LG Technology Ventures, and Hyundai Motor Group, among others.
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9 months ago
➀ Tenstorrent unveiled its Blackhole silicon at Hot Chips 2024, featuring a standalone AI computer based on Ethernet. ➁ The Blackhole chip includes sixteen RISC-V cores in four clusters, with additional 'baby' RISC-V cores for compute, data movement, and storage. ➂ It supports 10x 400Gbps Ethernet and 512GB/s of bandwidth, emphasizing data locality and minimizing off-chip DRAM usage. ➃ The architecture leverages Ethernet for scaling, avoiding the need for specialized interconnects like NVLink or InfiniBand. ➄ TT-Metalium is introduced as part of the low-level programming model to facilitate AI operations on the hardware.
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11 months ago
❶ Tenstorrent announces the commercial release of its Wormhole processors, designed to compete with Nvidia in the AI accelerator market. ❷ The Wormhole n150 and n300 AI accelerators are available as PCIe cards, featuring scalable Tensix cores and native scaling capabilities. ❸ Pre-built workstations, TT-LoudBox and TT-QuietBox, are offered with four n300 cards each, starting at $12,000.
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