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Tenstorrent

2 articles First covered Jun 23, 2026, latest Aug 10, 2026

AMD's glass-fronted Santa Clara headquarters behind ornamental grasses, with the AMD sign on a low monument by the sidewalk

One model per chip: AMD bought Taalas, whose test part hit 17,000 tokens a second

Taalas casts a model's weights into transistors. Its 6nm test chip served Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second, and AMD just bought the company.

Close-up of a Tenstorrent Galaxy AI compute unit with a hexagonal vented faceplate

Hardware·2 months ago

Qualcomm is chasing a $10 billion AI-chip deal. The target is Jim Keller's RISC-V startup.

Qualcomm is in talks to buy Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, per Reuters and The Information. The bet: a RISC-V challenger to Nvidia, not just phones.