Tenstorrent
RISC-V + Tensix AI chips and open IP, led by Jim Keller
Tenstorrent, led by chip legend Jim Keller, designs AI accelerators (Wormhole, Blackhole) built around its Tensix cores and RISC-V CPUs, and licenses both AI and RISC-V IP. Its open, Ethernet-scalable, non-HBM approach targets cost-efficiency and customers wanting to avoid Nvidia lock-in and CUDA. It raised a large 2024-2025 round (backers including Samsung, Hyundai, Jeff Bezos) and works with sovereign and IP-licensing customers, positioning as both a chip vendor and an Arm/x86-alternative IP source.
Products
Wormhole, Blackhole (Tensix + RISC-V)
IP
Licenses AI + RISC-V cores
Leadership
Jim Keller (CEO)
Edge
Open, Ethernet-scaled, no HBM
How it fits the stack
Tenstorrent with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Tenstorrent in the AI stack. Tenstorrent with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 4 entities, 3 relationships
- Tenstorrent —depends on→ Samsung Foundry
- Tenstorrent —competes with→ Arm Holdings
- Tenstorrent —competes with→ Nvidia
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