Artificial intelligence chip manufacturing company Tenstorrent announced its cooperation with Samsung Foundry to develop the next generation of cutting-edge chips based on its RISC-V architecture. Tenstorrent and Samsung's wafer foundry department reached a cooperation agreement on next-generation RISC-VAI chips, which greatly increased the strength of Samsung's wafer foundry department. The company has shown great optimism about its 3nm GAA process, which has previously attracted great interest from the industry, with companies such as NVIDIA and AMD looking at future adoption.
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In addition, Samsung Foundry has also improved its 4-nanometer process, which is said to have received large orders from the data center industry. Now Samsung Foundry also hopes to transition into the field of chip development.
Tenstorrent has become the next partner of the South Korean giant, which plans to manufacture next-generation chips based on RISC-V, targeting the artificial intelligence market. The company plans to use Samsung's SF4X process, the highest-end 4nm node currently offered by the foundry unit. The company also recently received $100 million in investment from Hyundai Group and Samsung, hoping to build artificial intelligence chips that can compete with Nvidia.
Tenstorrent's focus is on developing high-performance computing and delivering these solutions to customers around the world.
Jim Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent, said: "It is very exciting to have Keith Witek as our chief operating officer to promote our cooperation with Samsung." Samsung foundries are committed to advancing semiconductor technology, which coincides with our vision to advance RISC-V and artificial intelligence, making them an ideal partner to bring our artificial intelligence chips to market.
Samsung's vision for its foundry unit is broad, as the company has been trying to seize every opportunity, especially the recent artificial intelligence boom. After struggling to propose a hybrid supply chain model to NVIDIA, Samsung has finally succeeded in securing an HBM order, as well as a potential deal surrounding chip supply. In addition, the Samsung foundry has strengthened its ties with TeamRed and is responsible for providing HBM orders for AMD's InstinctMI300XAI accelerator.
It seems that Samsung is in a very good position now as it has the necessary facilities to take care of all stages of production including memory and chips. Not only does this reduce the hassle of having multiple suppliers, but since Samsung is relatively new compared to companies like TSMC, the "quotes" it provides are also more competitive.