i don't have an outrageous amount of experience here but i work at a place that designs and sells x86 chips (and i work on arch adjacent things). i'll just say this: do not underestimate the effect of institutional friction/momentum/complacency on "time to ship". point being: maybe RISC is more "agile" than CISC but also maybe Tenstorrent could have chosen a CISC approach and still iterated quickly simply because they're not an institution.
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> They are working on 2-3 CPU designs, 2-3 AI accelerators, all the IO stuff, etc
also do we actually know how much they're designing wholecloth and not buying off the shelf?
edit2: i think Tenstorrent is great and i'll probably buy a devkit soon (as well as maybe apply lol...)
edit:
> They are working on 2-3 CPU designs, 2-3 AI accelerators, all the IO stuff, etc
also do we actually know how much they're designing wholecloth and not buying off the shelf?
edit2: i think Tenstorrent is great and i'll probably buy a devkit soon (as well as maybe apply lol...)