Building AI Silicon
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HN cites it as a source on Tenstorrent's wide-issue RISC-V Ascalon CPU in RISC-V threads.
What it is
Jim Keller, CTO of Tenstorrent, talks at Samsung Foundry's SAFE 2021 about building AI silicon through modular, provable design. The talk also touches on Tenstorrent's RISC-V Ascalon core.
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What Hacker News said
Cites abdullin · 2022-02 · on “A Big Week for RISC-V”
Jim Keller is building RISC-V Ascalon processor at Tenstorrent right now. [this video] If I recall correctly, some things were planned to be open sourced.
Cites hajile · 2022-03 · on “RISC-V is succeeding”
Jim Keller's team is creating a 6-wide issue RISC-V CPU. It should have similar IPC as ARM X1 or AMD Zen 3. [this video]
Cites hajile · 2022-03 · on “RISC-V is succeeding”
Jim Keller is overseeing a very large RISC-V core that should be around the same performance level as X1 or Zen 3. I guess we'll see what the ISA can do pretty soon. He said they were talking about open-sourcing the CPU block. If they did (the CPU isn't their core business), we could see lots of RISC-V competition popping up. The age of CPUs being commodity items seems to be approaching. [this video]
Cites snvzz · 2022-09 · on “NASA selects SiFive and makes RISC-V the go-to ecosystem for future missions”
They're apparently working on one, in-house[0]. It's apparently called Ascalon, and there's some information starting at around 8 minutes into the video. 0. [this video]