The Hot Take: Interesting, Risc-V shop from rockstar architect Jim Keller.
Jim Keller isn't bothered by Cerebras's recent IPO and says that he welcomes it, but Tenstorrent will still beat them on everything. Tenstorrent CEO, Jim Keller, Signals Deal With Intel or Qualcomm While Promising To Beat Cerebras "on everything" Tenstorrent recently introduced its latest BlackHole Galaxy server, a system with which it can disrupt the entire AI segment, with performance levels that crush the competition. We covered the announcement last month when the company demoed its Blackhole server undercutting a NVIDIA GB300 with up to five times better TCO. Keller Accepts The Challenge To Beat NVIDIA, Cerebras & Others At […]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/jim-keller-cerebras-ipo-was-helpful-tenstorrent-to-beat-them-on-everything/
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The Hot Take: RISC-V breaking the GPU strangle hold on GPU's? YES PLEASE.
Tenstorrent made a bold claim during their TT-Deploy livestream, saying they are going to crush everyone at everything, including AI, with their Galaxy servers. Tenstorrent Galaxy Supercluster Offers 10x Faster GenAI Video, And Destroys Current-Gen GPUs With "Blitz Mode", Offering 350+ Tokens/s In DeepSeek R1 Jim Keller and his Tenstorrent are on a mission to challenge the existing AI hierarchy with their RISC-V-powered platforms. As such, the company unveiled its latest Galaxy Blackhole servers for AI at scale. With Galaxy Blackhole, Tenstorrent offers a fully Networked and native AI solution that includes compute, memory, and networking, all unified into a […]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/tenstorrent-vows-to-crush-everyone-galaxy-blackhole-hits-350-tokens-on-deepseek-r1-undercut-nvidia-gb300-ai-tco/
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The Hot Take: We all desperately need this to not be vapor-ware!
A relatively unknown U. S. -based startup, Bolt Graphics, has announced that it has successfully taped out the first test chip of its Zeus GPU architecture. The company positions Zeus as a disruptive compute accelerator, previously claiming performance up to 150% higher than an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 while consumi ...
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The Hot Take: It appears that Nvidia is playing all the ISA's against each other.
In some funding rounds, the amount alone isn’t enough to tell the whole story. The $400 million that SiFive raised on April 9, 2026, is therefore only half the story. The other half is who is involved and what the money is intended for. Reuters and SiFive itself speak of funding for the expansion of […]
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The Hot Take: ARM appears to have miffed licenses already.
ARM's ecosystem is both expansive and pervasive these days, with Samsung's latest cutting-edge Exynos 2600 chips also leveraging ARMv9.3 CPU cores. Even so, Samsung is apparently taking its first tentative steps towards the open-source RISC-V architecture via a custom SSD controller chip. Samsung is tentatively exploring the RISC-V open-source architecture via a custom SSD controller chip, moving away from ARM's IP According to South Korea-based ETNews, Samsung's upcoming SSD lineup, called the BM9K1 and designed entirely in-house, will leverage a controller chip that is based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. For the benefit of those who might not be aware, […]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/samsung-takes-first-step-away-from-arms-ecosystem-by-working-on-an-ssd-controller-chip-based-on-risc-v-architecture/
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The Hot Take: China going hard into RISC-V for sure, my guess they don't trust the Brit company ARM any more.
China's Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) launched next-generation chip and operating system co-development alongside the debut of the Xiangshan open-source processor and Ruyi native OS at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum.
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The Hot Take: RISC-V getting traction everywhere it appears. I wonder if intel starts breaking into RISC-C SoCs to more easily compete with ARM. Given Intel is a steering board member.
Samsung is taking a notable step in SSD controller development by introducing a proprietary design based on the RISC-V instruction set. The new controller debuts in the upcoming BM9K1 PCIe 5.
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