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Well, it's official. I finally got to meet the guy in person. Jim now leads an startup called Tenstorrent, designing ML hardware and software, with a lot of clever people in the team. In this interview, we discuss RISCV, Chiplets, IP, Expertise, and if they'll sell PCIe cards.

[00:00] Spicy talk
[00:33] Q1: Moving from CTO to CEO
[01:48] Q2: Tenstorrent and Software
[05:30] Q3: Incoming Hiring Mentality
[07:29] Q4: Why have cores, why RISCV?
[09:28] Q5: Chiplets?
[11:37] Q6: Is Tenstorrent an AI company or an IP company?
[14:56] Q7: Differentiation and Expertise
[16:48] Q8: Use Tenstorrent To Make Tenstorrent
[19:50] Q9: AI on EDA: Unintelligible Outputs
[21:25] Q10: Auditable Hardware
[22:47] Q11: New Clean Sheet Designs
[24:25] Q12: Comfortable!
[24:58] Q13: One Core = One Chip = One System
[27:00] LOLs
[29:00] Q14: Customer System Sizes
[30:30] Q15: Selling PCIe Cards? Yes!
[33:17] Q16: Customer Announcements?

Big Ball of Mud Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Even though Tenstorrent is a client of my analyst business, this interview was not sponsored content.

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