Samsung to Make AI Chips for Startup Tenstorrent Using Cutting-Edge 4nm Process

Samsung will manufacture AI chips for Canadian startup Tenstorrent using its advanced 4nm process.
Tenstorrent makes AI chips and IP for data centers, aiming to challenge Nvidia's dominance in this market.
Tenstorrent is also developing chips for automotive and other applications.
The chip Samsung will make is called Quasar and is not based on RISC-V architecture like some other Tenstorrent chips.
Samsung invested in Tenstorrent in August as part of the startup's $100M funding round.

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