The Canadian startup Tenstorrent revealed a new partnership with Samsung’s chip manufacturing department.
The startup announced the partnership with Samsung, saying it will use it to bring the “next generation of AI chiplets to market.” Tenstorrent manufactures chips and intellectual property for data centers.
The deal includes using one of Samsung’s advanced manufacturing processes, the SF4X process and 4nm architecture, to produce its next-gen chips. According to the announcement, the product to be developed with Samsung will be a chiplet to be paired with other chiplets in one package.
Jim Keller, the CEO of Tenstorrent, said the goal is to develop “high performance compute” and to deliver these solutions to “customers around the world.”
In August, Tenstorrent closed a $100 million funding round led by Samsung and the automotive manufacturer Hyundai. At the time, Tenstorrent said the funds would go toward accelerating product development and design, AI chiplets and a roadmap for machine learning software.
This development comes in the heat of the race to develop the most powerful AI chips to create high-level AI systems.
Currently, Nvidia is the market leader when it comes to chip development and power. Earlier in 2023, the company briefly tipped $1 trillion in value amid the AI frenzy.
While Nvidia remains at the head of the pack for chip development, it recently came under scrutiny by authorities in France in an antitrust investigation. The local police raided Nvidia offices after French antitrust authorities made a general inquiry into the cloud computing sector.
