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Hot Chips 2026: five bets on serving agents cheaply
Intel, IBM, Meta and SiFive each showed a different answer to serving model calls cheaply. Two are already in production, one is a 2027 Xeon.
Intel, IBM, Meta and SiFive each showed a different answer to serving model calls cheaply. Two are already in production, one is a 2027 Xeon.

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.

Verkor's Design Conductor agent went from a 219-word spec to a tape-out-ready RISC-V core called VerCore in 12 hours. The catch: it's still a Celeron.