YesFiveAnnounce, Jim Keller, a famous processor architecture designer, joined as chief technology officerTenstorrent, has obtained the license for its CPU technology design based on the RISC-V architecture, allowing its artificial intelligence processors to cope with general workloads.
Since the artificial intelligence processor built by Tenstorrent is mainly used for training and inference applications, it still needs to use the CPU to handle general execution tasks.
SiFive's RISC-V-based, 64-bit X280 core design, combined with Tenstorrent's Tensix core for AI training and inference, will accelerate AI applications through heterogeneous computing while also addressing general workloads.
The X280 core design incorporates 512-bit RISC-V vector extension capabilities and compatibility with the Google TensorFlow Lite model framework, enabling high-performance inference operations at low power consumption while also accelerating machine learning efficiency.
By integrating the X280 core design, Tenstorrent expects to accelerate various AI computing applications. Furthermore, through its RISC-V architecture design, it will be able to apply its AI processor to a wider range of computing needs, including supercomputing.
According to Tenstorrent's previous explanation, its artificial intelligence processor computing architecture can be expanded as the computing model changes, and can dynamically remove unnecessary computing conditional execution threads as needed, thereby improving the efficiency of artificial intelligence computing.
