The trap for @intel and many others
Innovation makes money
Money drives market cap
Market cap needs to be supported
Innovation is risky
Promote careful people
Stop innovation
Jim Keller
1,050 posts
CEO @tenstorrent, Cofounder @atomic_semi
@BayaSystems, FlexAI, AheadComputing board member.
Fan of 2x2 matrixes, books, refactoring and creative tension
Joined June 2014
- To break the law you must first really understand it Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy: In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have
- I can do it for less than $1Tfk it why not 8
- Moore's law is still not dead!! My guess 1000x to go on known physics. Probably not EUV
- Computers are fast so software doesn’t have to be
- Great work Sailesh. Working with you over the years has been inspiring. Amazing team at @bayasystems. Looking forward to working with you from your friends @tenstorrentOne of the most exciting days of my career. @bayasystems exiting stealth and launching at DAC. Thanks to BoD @jimkxa and @stanreiss, and @intel and @PGelsinger for support and investment, and numerous customers and partners. My blog on Baya's inception: lnkd.in/gkrcEKrm
- You ask nerds to talk to nerds about RiscV and they all show up. Super fun to meet everybody in Bangalore
- Machinations !Ch-ch-check it out!! Nearly three hours of insights into the machinations at work at the world's biggest tech companies, the impossible stuff Jim's working on now (tabletop semiconductor fab! 3d printed cars!) and a glimpse into his bullish take on human potential
- CPU threads are 10x faster than GPU threads GPUs are more efficient, GPUs have 100x more threads per chip Less known, Tensor Processors are 4x more efficient than GPUs.
- Round D closed, $693,000,000 Well done @tenstorrent Many thanks to our investors Lot's to do, let's get to workTenstorrent is announcing that it has closed over $693M in its Series D funding round at a pre-money valuation of $2B. Samsung Securities and AFW Partners led the round, which was oversubscribed due to strong demand from investors. tenstorrent.com/vision/tenstor…
- Cuda’s a swamp, not a moat. x86 was a swamp too
- Zero-based budgeting is a budget that starts from zero and justifies each expense. It can be used by individuals, families, and companies. And Governments @elonmusk There's also Zero-based design. You can't tweak your way to a goal if you're far off. Start with Zero, clean









