Tenstorrent launches new Wormhole high-performance AI chip using RISC-V architecture

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Tenstorrent has just launched its new Wormhole high-performance AI chip featuring the RISC-V architecture, with chip legend Jim Keller's fingerprints all over the Wormhole AI chip.

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The new Tenstorrent Wormhole AI chip will be a cost-effective and scalable solution for AI customers. The company is also unveiling AI workstation solutions dedicated to its new Wormhole platform, meaning it offers consumers a full AI package.

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Tenstorrent's new Wormhole AI chips will be offered in PCIe cards in two different configurations: the Wormhole n150 and Wormhole n300. The new Wormhole n150 features a single processor with 72 Tensix cores, with the company saying each Tensix core features 5 RISV-C baby cores, allowing scalability with multi-chip development much more efficiently.

The new Wormhole n150 chip and its single processor features a 160W TDP and pushes 262 TFLOPs of FP8 performance, with the Wormhole n150 add-in card sporting 12GB of GDDR6 memory with up to 288GB/sec of memory bandwidth.

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Tenstorrent's beefier n300 chip sports dual processors, with double the AI computing power of the n150 with 24GB of GDDR6 memory.

Jim Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent, said: "It's always rewarding to get more of our products into developer hands. Releasing development systems with our Wormhole™ card helps developers scale up and work on multi-chip AI software. In addition to this launch, we are excited that the tape-out and power-on for our second generation, Blackhole, is going very well".

The Wormhole n150 and Wormhole n300 are Tenstorrent's next developer kits, building on their Grayskull DevKit boards. The new TT-LoudBox is Tenstorrent's new developer workstation powered by 4 x Wormhole n300s (8 processors in total).

Tenstorrent has also introduced its all-new TT-QuietBox, a new high-end, liquid-cooled AI developer workstation. Inside, the Tenstorrent TT-QuietBox features an AMD EPYC processor, and thanks to its liquid cooling solution, it delivers the power of 8 x Wormhole processors in a virtually noise-free form factory. The workstation is now available to order.