Raja Koduri Joins Tenstorrent Board of Administrators

Simply two weeks after retiring from Intel, Raja Koduri joined the board of administrators of Tenstorrent, an AI and high-performance RISC-V CPU firm that intends to problem the blue large within the coming years, as observed by @SquashBionic. A famend developer of GPUs for graphics and compute, Raja Koduri shall be becoming a member of his former colleagues from AMD, ATI, and Intel.

Tenstorrent is creating datacenter options comprising of RISC-V-based AI/ML accelerators in addition to high-performance RISC-V basic objective processors. The corporate was established in 2016 by Ljubisa Bajic, and it’s presently led by Jim Keller, a famend CPU architect who has spearheaded the creation of revolutionary processor architectures at firms resembling Apple, AMD, and DEC. (We not too long ago outlined Tenstorrent’s quick and mid-term plans.)

Fact to be informed, a place within the board of administrators doesn’t indicate that Raja will be capable of affect growth of CPUs or AI accelerators. But, he may have his phrase when setting Tenstorrent’s strategic objectives and strategic roadmap, one thing that’s notably essential. Being developer of AI accelerators and high-performance RISC-V CPUs, Tenstorrent is actually travelling in uncharted watersm since AI-related applied sciences are altering quickly, whereas the open-source RISC-V microarchitecture is poised to alter quick generally. 

To a big diploma, growth of AI and RISC-V {hardware} as of late resembles growth of GPUs again within the 1990’s and 2000’s when firms tried quite a lot of approaches and often modified microarchitectures radically as soon as in a yr or two. That is one thing that we barely see as of late within the fields of x86 and Arm CPUs in addition to GPUs from firms like Arm, AMD, Nvidia, and Intel.