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Jim Keller's Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion in new funding

Original: Chip legend Jim Keller’s Tenstorrent raises $1.5B to expand its open compute ecosystem

Tenstorrent, the chip startup led by veteran processor designer Jim Keller, has raised $1.5 billion to expand its open compute ecosystem. The company develops RISC-V processors and AI accelerators as an open alternative to proprietary platforms like Nvidia's. The large round underscores growing investor appetite for alternatives in the AI hardware market and will support Tenstorrent's product development and scaling efforts.

Why now: A major funding round for a high-profile chip startup challenging Nvidia is big tech industry news.

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