Investors: Qualcomm (acquirer); prior investors include Samsung Securities, Fidelity, AFW Partners, Eclipse Ventures
Qualcomm acquiring Tenstorrent, an AI chip startup led by Jim Keller, at $8–10B valuation to gain RISC-V-based inference accelerator technology and compete with Nvidia in hyperscale AI compute.
View article →Investors: Bezos Expeditions, Samsung, LG Electronics, Hyundai Motor Group, Fidelity
Tenstorrent has raised over $1 billion from strategic and financial investors backing its Galaxy Blackhole AI inference platform.
View article →Qualcomm to acquire Tenstorrent for $8–10B, reshaping AI chip hierarchy
Qualcomm is acquiring AI chip startup Tenstorrent for $8–10B, giving the San Diego giant a RISC-V accelerator designed to outperform Nvidia on inference workloads that now dominate AI infrastructure costs.
Tenstorrent ships Galaxy Blackhole, taking on Nvidia in inference
Tenstorrent began volume production of Galaxy Blackhole, a $110,000 AI inference server that claims 23 PFLOPS performance and 350+ tokens per second, challenging Nvidia's GPU dominance with a clean-sheet hardware design.
Tenstorrent's $110K AI Server Challenges Nvidia's Inference Dominance
Tenstorrent launches Galaxy Blackhole inference servers at 3-5x cheaper per node than Nvidia DGX, with 16 units already deployed at Equinix and performance claims that undercut the GPU+LPU disaggregation trend.