Tenstorrent Unveils High-End Wormhole AI Processors, Featuring RISC-V

Re:Tenstorrent Unveils High-End Wormhole AI Processors, Feat... by IshKebab on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:23PM (#41019491)

That price is very good - even better is the fact that you can actually buy these right now (ships in 2 weeks apparently) by going to their website! So many AI startups are PoA, only B2B etc.

I did some 5 second digging into their code and it seems based on their Github that they took Berkeley's BOOM CPU (written in Chisel), and added support for the Vector 1.0 extension, and then they've called this core Ocelot. Seems like the core is open source at least.

https://github.com/tenstorrent/riscv-ocelot/blob/bobcat/READ...

Not sure about the driver/software situation though. Do you actually get to run whatever RISC-V code you want on these? Could be amazing if so.

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Re:Tenstorrent Unveils High-End Wormhole AI Processors, Feat... by camel-cdr on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:27PM (#41019539)

ocelot/bobcat has nothing to do with the ML cards. It was their first go of implementing the RISC-V vector extension as a proof of concept and they open sourced it. It's not very optimized and the ascalon architecture will be a lot different.

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Re:Tenstorrent Unveils High-End Wormhole AI Processors, Feat... by A_D_E_P_T on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:25PM (#41019520)

Yeah, this is top-notch pricing and availability, and the chips look very capable. Tenstorrent is probably going to 10x, and fast.

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Re:Tenstorrent Unveils High-End Wormhole AI Processors, Feat... by kranke155 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:39PM (#41019651)

Jim Keller the Silicon Ronin does it again.

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