# Tenstorrent

> Tenstorrent is a privately held AI-computing company that designs accelerator chips, RISC-V CPU IP, workstations, servers and an open-source software stack. Its central wager is that modular compute, abundant on-chip SRAM and standard Ethernet can make AI systems easier to scale and less dependent on a single proprietary hardware and software ecosystem.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Toronto, Canada
- **Founders:** Ljubisa Bajic (Founder and former CEO/CTO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 1,500 employees in the supplied company data; LinkedIn publicly lists 501-1,000 employees.
- **Products:** Blackhole PCIe cards, Wormhole PCIe cards, Tenstorrent Galaxy, TT-QuietBox 2, TT-LoudBox and TT-QuietBox
- **Notable:** Reached a $1 billion valuation after a 2021 financing of more than $200 million., Closed an oversubscribed Series D of more than $693 million in December 2024 at a $2 billion pre-money valuation., Shipped Wormhole developer cards and systems, followed by Blackhole developer products in 2025 and Galaxy Blackhole volume production in 2026.

## Products & services

- **Blackhole PCIe cards** — p100 and p150 accelerator boards built around Blackhole Tensix processors for developer and production AI workloads.
- **Wormhole PCIe cards** — n150 and n300 accelerator boards that combine Tensix cores, local SRAM, network-on-chip links and RISC-V control cores.
- **Tenstorrent Galaxy** — A 32-chip enterprise AI server offered in Blackhole and Wormhole generations, designed to scale across systems with standard Ethernet.
- **TT-QuietBox 2** — A compact liquid-cooled Blackhole workstation containing two dual-chip p300c cards for local AI development and inference.
- **TT-LoudBox and TT-QuietBox** — Developer workstations for multi-chip local AI work, offered with higher-throughput air cooling or quiet liquid cooling.
- **TT-Metalium and TT-NN** — Open-source low-level kernel programming tools and a Python/C++ neural-network operator library for Tensix hardware.
- **TT-Forge and TT-Lang** — Compiler and Python DSL layers that bring models and custom kernels onto Tenstorrent systems.
- **Ascalon RISC-V IP** — Licensable high-performance RISC-V CPU cores and related system IP for data-center, automotive, robotics and custom-silicon programs.
- **Open Chiplet Atlas** — A Tenstorrent-led open architecture and partner ecosystem for interoperable heterogeneous chiplets.
- **AI and RISC-V design services** — Custom engineering, silicon co-design and IP licensing for customers that want to own and tailor their processors.

## Achievements

- Reached a $1 billion valuation after a 2021 financing of more than $200 million.
- Closed an oversubscribed Series D of more than $693 million in December 2024 at a $2 billion pre-money valuation.
- Shipped Wormhole developer cards and systems, followed by Blackhole developer products in 2025 and Galaxy Blackhole volume production in 2026.
- Built an open-source AI software stack spanning low-level kernels, neural-network operators, compilers, model serving and simulation.
- Won a multi-tiered Japanese project with LSTC and Rapidus around 2nm edge AI, RISC-V and chiplets.
- Achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification at the end of 2024.
- Acquired analog and die-to-die interconnect specialist Blue Cheetah Analog Design in July 2025.
- Launched the Open Chiplet Atlas ecosystem with more than 50 participating organizations in 2025.
- Announced its largest deployment to date with Japan's ai& in June 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — At TT-Deploy JP, Tenstorrent announced new language and video inference results, introduced TT-Ascalon S CPU IP and described its largest deployment to date with ai& in Japan.
- **2026-05** — Tenstorrent held TT-Deploy and said Galaxy Blackhole was shipping in volume, with 36-system superclusters already operating as a single computer.
- **2026-04** — Galaxy Blackhole reached general availability, with a listed starting price of $110,000 per 32-chip system and $440,000 for a four-system base supercluster.
- **2026-01** — Tenstorrent announced a sovereign AI partnership with Infinia Technologies focused on the Gulf region.
- **2025-12** — The company made Ascalon RISC-V CPU IP available and announced an automotive partnership with AutoCore.
- **2025-10** — Tenstorrent launched Open Chiplet Atlas with more than 50 ecosystem partners.
- **2025-07** — Tenstorrent acquired Blue Cheetah Analog Design, bringing mixed-signal and die-to-die interconnect expertise in-house.
- **2025-04** — Blackhole accelerator cards and developer systems launched at Tenstorrent Dev Day.

## Links

- Website: https://tenstorrent.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tenstorrent-inc./
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tenstorrent
- GitHub: https://github.com/tenstorrent
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tenstorrentinc

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Last updated: 2026-08-14