Tenstorrent Wormhole Upgrades Memory
Author: Ayush Jain
Read our latest report on Tenstorrent's Wormhole architecture, covering the n150 and n300 PCIe boards, memory enhancements, performance boosts, and power efficiency. Discover how these innovations are influencing the AI-chip market and what lies ahead.
Tenstorrent is one of the few AI-chip startups to raise funding in the past year, as it continues to develop new datacenter products to challenge NVIDIA. Its larger ambit has been on price/performance rather than going head-to-head with NVIDIA on peak performance. The company launched two new PCIe boards based on its Wormhole architecture: the n150 and the n300. The devices improve on the previous Grayskull models with additional memory capacity and bandwidth and a broad precision range support. Although, the additional memory comes at the cost of high power consumption.
The company is currently behind on its roadmap. As of March 2023, Tenstorrent was supposed to tape out Blackhole by the end of 2023. However, according to the company, the chip will now be taped out by the end of 2024 or even early 2025. A similar delay occurred with its previous-generation architecture chips. The original 2020 plan called for Wormhole to reach production in 2021, but the company experienced a long delay in getting Grayskull into production, which subsequently pushed back Wormhole.
