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Tenstorrent

Hardware

AI-accelerator designer led by Jim Keller, building RISC-V-based chips and open compute software as an alternative to NVIDIA and AMD for training and inference.

Total funding—

Valuation$2.6B

Employees1,200

Founded2016

HeadquartersSanta Clara, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Blackhole Hardware Sold on its own

  RISC-V-based AI accelerator sold as standalone PCIe developer cards (Blackhole p100a, p150a, p150b) alongside the previous-generation Wormhole boards on Tenstorrent's card catalogue page.

• Tenstorrent Galaxy Hardware Sold on its own

  Rack-mount AI compute server built from 32 Tenstorrent Tensix processors with built-in Ethernet scale-out, sold in Blackhole and Wormhole generations and in multi-server supercluster configurations.

• TT-QuietBox Hardware Sold on its own

  Liquid-cooled desktop AI workstation containing four Tenstorrent Tensix processors, an AMD Ryzen CPU, DDR5 memory and NVMe storage, sold for running and developing AI models locally.

• TT-LoudBox Hardware Sold on its own

  Air-cooled desktop AI workstation built around four Tenstorrent Wormhole n300s cards (eight Tensix processors) with a 96GB expandable memory pool, sold for local AI model development and HPC library porting.

• Tenstorrent Cloud Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Hosted remote access to Tenstorrent accelerator instances of 1-128 Wormhole Tensix processors, reached through a browser or remote session via the TT-Console portal.

• TT-Ascalon Hardware Sold on its own

  High-performance RISC-V CPU core licensed as silicon IP to chip designers for use in AI accelerators, chiplets and custom SoCs.

• Tensix Neo Hardware Sold on its own

  AI accelerator core licensed as silicon IP to chip designers for embedding Tenstorrent's Tensix compute into their own SoCs and chiplets.

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NNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TTechCrunch frames Tenstorrent explicitly as a challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance. Tenstorrent's flagship accelerator card (Blackhole) and NVIDIA's Blackwell both carry buy-ai-compute.5 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleSourced competitorBuy data-centre AI computeCompare

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Valuation

News reporting · 2 Dec 2024

TechCrunch: Tenstorrent raised a $693M Series D valuing the company at more than $2.6B. funding_total is left null: aggregators disagree materially on the cumulative figure ($793M-$1.18B across different sources) and no single primary total could be confirmed.

Employees

Third-party database · 29 Aug 2026

Aggregator estimate, ~1,200 as of 2026; rounded, not a filed figure -- Tenstorrent is private.

Founded

Wikipedia · 29 Aug 2026

Founded in Toronto, March 2016.

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