AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train Japan's engineers in $50M government deal

Japan has asked AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train up to 200 chip designers from the country at its US offices over the course of five years to help inject new blood into Japan’s semiconductor industry. The contract, announced on Tuesday, is valued at $50 million, invested between both Tenstorrent and Japan's Semiconductor …

[Anonymous Coward]

Puzzling Enigma

Sounds like a cool exchange program given some of the interesting innovations coming from Tenstorrent, including their partnering with Arteris to integrate the configurable FlexNoC interconnect IP into their AI/graph processors.

My question though is whether Tenstorrent is a US Silicon Valley startup, as suggested by Reuters, and PR Newswire, or a Canadian startup, as proposed by Reuters (different article), Arteris, and Rapidus? Maybe they have multiple HQs? A mystery to me ...

[EricB123]

Re: Puzzling Enigma

With those different answers from the same news service, Reuters, I'm wondering if Reuters "wrote" those articles using hallucinating AI.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Sorry won't work.

The engineers will go back to Japan and sit in their office 12hours a day looking busy for their bosses

Having been 'trained in America' they are now flagged as special little boys for promotion. So all they have to do is not rock the boat and not doing anything wrong for 10years and they are guaranteed the corner office

[Genki_des]

How does is differ from the alleged China government subsidizining their factories?

"Tenstorrent has linked-up with Rapidus to co-develop semiconductor IP for AI edge devices, which will be manufactured in Rapidus's planned, government-subsidized factory, and confirmed it will open a design center in Tokyo."

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, these things fluctuate over time, but the situation today is that Japan is an ally and China is an adversary -- different rules apply accordingly ...