Commissioned by Tenstorrent
Samsung’s contract chip manufacturing division has a new customer in the form of a Canadian startup called Tenstorrent, which develops chips with artificial intelligence technologies.
Tenstorrent is among several startups trying to compete with Nvidia, which dominates the AI chip market. The company makes chips for data centers but is also working to supply other markets, including automotive.
Samsung will release the latest Quasar chips to compete with Nvidia
As part of the deal, Tenstorrent plans to use one of Samsung’s advanced manufacturing processes (4nm) to produce chips. Some of Tenstorrent’s chips are built using technology known as RISC-V, an open-source semiconductor architecture that competes with Arm and x86. However, the chip that Samsung will produce is called Quasar and is not based on RISC-V technology.
“Tenstorrent’s goal is to develop high-performance computing and deliver those solutions to customers around the world,” Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller said in a statement.
Legendary processor designer Jim Keller joined Tenstorrent as CTO in December 2020 and became CEO in January 2023.
