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Tenstorrent
Company blog · tenstorrent.com/en/developers/bloghardwareai
Tenstorrent is the company blog at tenstorrent.com, writing about hardware and ai. Since 2017, 54 different Hacker News readers have linked it 83 times, most often “Tenstorrent: Scalable and Efficient Hardware for Deep Learning”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Linked for Tenstorrent's product pages: AI accelerator cards and workstations (Grayskull, Wormhole, Blackhole, QuietBox, LoudBox), RISC-V CPU IP, and company job listings. Commenters cite these pages rather than discuss writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Toronto, Belgrade, Seoul, Tokyo, and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architectur
Most-linked posts?
- Tenstorrent: Scalable and Efficient Hardware for Deep Learning5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-08-26
- Tenstorrent Grayskull PCIe AI/ML Accelerators5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-05-21
- Tenstorrent Gen1 Grayskull Devkit4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-23
- /hardware/tt-quietbox4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-20
- TT-Ascalon – RISC-V CPU3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-14
- /risc-v/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-04
- /hardware/blackhole2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-03
- /hardware/tt-loudbox2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-20
- Tenstorrent closes $693M+ of Series D funding2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-02
- TT-Ascalon S2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-03
What Hacker News says?
Right, content creators are in a race to the bottom. But the people who position themselves to profit from the energy consumption of the hardware will profit from all of it: the LLMs, the image generators, the video generators, etc. See discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41733311 Imagine the number of worthless images being generated as people try to find one they like. Slop content creators…
Comment linking /hardware/grayskull
on “Meta Movie Gen”Submitted Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day as a story · 65 points
HN discussion> RISC is China / Eastern Imo this is a really strange characterization of RISC. I've never seen this before. I think you try to paint a misleading picture in bad faith, please consider this: - https://riscv.org/blog/how-nvidia-shipped-one-billion-risc-v... - https://tenstorrent.com/en/ip/risc-v-cpu - https://blog.westerndigital.com/risc-v-swerv-core-open-sourc... - https://www.sifive.com - ... - https://riscv.org/a…
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on “Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm”Submitted Tenstorrent closes $693M+ of Series D funding as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere certainly are some smaller companies attempting to compete on making AI/ML chips. Tenstorrent comes to mind: https://tenstorrent.com/grayskull/
Comment linking /grayskull/
on “The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996”Submitted Tenstorrent raises $1.5B Series E at $6.2B valuation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Software/Hardware Engineers | Toronto, Canada | Full time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor ASIC. We are looking for talented engineers to help us bring our processor to market. We have multiple openings for hardware, software, embedded, devops and deep learning engineers. We are very excited to be creating a highly-relevant new process…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Tenstorrent Is Continuing Its Contributions to the RISC-V Open Source Ecosystem as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Software/Hardware Engineers | Toronto, Canada | Full time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor ASIC. We are looking for talented engineers to help us bring our processor to market. We have multiple openings for hardware, software, embedded, devops and deep learning engineers. We are very excited to be creating a highly-relevant new process…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Tenstorrent Launches Next-Gen Wormhole-Based Developer Kits and Workstations as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Software/Hardware Engineers | Toronto, Canada | Full time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor ASIC. We are looking for talented engineers to help us bring our processor to market. We have multiple openings for hardware, software, embedded, devops and deep learning engineers. We are very excited to be creating a highly-relevant new process…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Tenstorrent closes $693M+ of Series D funding led by Samsung as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Software/Hardware Engineers | Toronto, Canada | Full time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor ASIC. We are looking for talented engineers to help us bring our processor to market. We have multiple openings for hardware, software, embedded, devops and deep learning engineers. We are very excited to be creating a highly-relevant new process…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted Tenstorrent RISC-V/Chiplet Technology Selected to Build Future of AI in Japan as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Multiple engineering positions | Toronto, Canada | Full/part time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor ASIC. We are looking for hardware and software engineers to help us bring our processor to market. Current openings are: Deep learning expert, Lead software engineer, and Processor architect/designer. We are backed by Real Ventures - the…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Tenstorrent Releases Open Source Beta of the Open Chiplet Atlas (OCA) Harness as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Software/Hardware Engineers | Toronto, Canada | Full time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor ASIC. We are looking for talented engineers to help us bring our processor to market. We have multiple openings for hardware, software, embedded, devops and deep learning engineers. We are very excited to be creating a highly-relevant new process…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted Serving Prefill and Decode for Agentic AI (On Tenstorrent Blackhole) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Software/Hardware Engineers | Toronto, Canada | Full & part time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor ASIC. We are looking for hardware and software engineers to help us bring our processor to market. Current openings are: Deep learning expert, Lead software engineer, and Processor architect/designer. We are backed by Real Ventures - the C…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”Submitted Tenstorrent and Smallest.ai Partner to Bring Production-Grade Voice AI On-Prem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Multiple engineering positions | Toronto, Canada | Full/part time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor ASIC. We are looking for hardware and software engineers to help us bring our processor to market. Current openings are: Deep learning expert, Lead software engineer, and Processor architect/designer. We are backed by Real Ventures - the…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)”Submitted Tenstorrent Announces a $1.5B Series E at a $6.2B valuation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Software and Hardware Engineers | Toronto, Canada | Full time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor (ASIC). We have multiple openings for hardware, software, embedded, and devops engineers. If you share our enthusiasm for machine intelligence, and our drive to make robust and efficient products, we would love to talk to you! For the list of…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”Submitted Tenstorrent devkits now available to the public as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTenstorrent | Software and Hardware Engineers | Toronto, Canada | Full time | ONSITE | http://tenstorrent.com Tenstorrent is building a high-performance deep-learning processor (ASIC). We have multiple openings for hardware, software, embedded, and devops engineers. If you share our enthusiasm to develop machine intelligence, and our drive to make robust and efficient products, we would love to talk to you! For the…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”Submitted Tenstorrent Gen1 Grayskull Devkit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor people interested in this: I've been working on an open-source libtpu implementation for https://tenstorrent.com/ accelerators as a side project, it can already run most of torchtpu, see https://github.com/pcmoritz/libtt (based on the tenstorrent software stack). It shows all the things involved in lowering torch to tile based accelerators.
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on “Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs”Submitted Tenstorrent Selects Samsung Foundry to Manufacture Next-Generation AI Chiplet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis page has some details of Tenstorrent's current chips [1]. Looks like a manycore simd design focused on tensor ops from a brief look. Apparently they also have some sort or compression scheme to boost memory bandwidth. 1: https://www.tenstorrent.com/technology/
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on “Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup”Submitted Tenstorrent Grayskull PCIe AI/ML Accelerators as a story · 2 points
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