Jim Keller-Led Tenstorrent Licenses RISC-V for AI | Anton Shilov, Tom’s Hardware

Ex-AMD engineers chose RISC-V CPU for their AI SoC design.

Tenstorrent, a developer of heterogeneous processors for AI applications led by ex-AMD engineers Ljubisa Bajic and Jim Keller, has licensed a general-purpose CPU design developed by SiFive based on the RISC-V architecture. Licensing general-purpose cores and IP will speed up time-to-market of Tenstorrent’s products.