➀ Tenstorrent unveiled its Blackhole silicon at Hot Chips 2024, featuring a standalone AI computer based on Ethernet. ➁ The Blackhole chip includes sixteen RISC-V cores in four clusters, with additional 'baby' RISC-V cores for compute, data movement, and storage. ➂ It supports 10x 400Gbps Ethernet and 512GB/s of bandwidth, emphasizing data locality and minimizing off-chip DRAM usage. ➃ The architecture leverages Ethernet for scaling, avoiding the need for specialized interconnects like NVLink or InfiniBand. ➄ TT-Metalium is introduced as part of the low-level programming model to facilitate AI operations on the hardware.
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