Jim Keller: ‘Whatever Nvidia Does, We’ll Do The Opposite’
By Sally Ward-Foxton, EETimes | June 5, 2025
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Fresh off the launch of the company’s Blackhole chip, Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller is feeling happy.
“I told my leadership team this is my best day at Tenstorrent in four years,” Keller told EE Times in an exclusive interview. “Our CPU team is kicking ass, we delivered the Beta drop for [RISC-V CPU IP core] Ascalon, our first training computer is up and running, we’re shipping Blackhole computers, and we just talked to this kid who’s building a compiler on top of our technology, who thinks what we’re doing is great.”
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