Just two weeks after retiring from Intel, Raja Koduri joined the board of directors of Tenstorrent, an AI and high-performance RISC-V CPU company that intends to challenge the blue giant in the coming years, as noticed by @SquashBionic. A renowned developer of GPUs for graphics and compute, Raja Koduri will be joining his former colleagues from AMD, ATI, and Intel.
Tenstorrent is developing datacenter solutions comprising of RISC-V-based AI/ML accelerators as well as high-performance RISC-V general purpose processors. The company was established in 2016 by Ljubisa Bajic, and it is presently led by Jim Keller, a renowned CPU architect who has spearheaded the creation of revolutionary processor architectures at companies such as Apple, AMD, and DEC. (We recently outlined Tenstorrent's short and mid-term plans.)
