LG teamed up with Tenstorrent to develop special chips for televisions and cars

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula, Xiao Zhan cut the clue delivery! CTOnews.com May 31, according to Reuters, LG teamed up with Canadian startup Tenstorrent to develop RISC-V architecture and AI technology for smart TVs, cars and data centers.

David Bennett, general manager of Tenstorrent, said LG will initially use Tenstorrent's AI chip design to develop its own chips, followed by larger-scale strategic and mutually beneficial cooperation.

CTOnews.com attaches Tenstorrent background here. The company was founded in 2016. The company's start-up team members have more than ten years of industry experience and have worked for AMD, Intel, ARM, Altera and other chip companies.

Ljubisa Bajic serves as CEO and Chief Architect of the company, having led power architecture design at AMD and Tegra system architecture design at NVIDIA.

Chip guru Jim Keller joined the company in 2021. He spent four years at Apple working on A4 and A5 designs, then returned to AMD for two years as corporate vice president and chief core architect responsible for the next generation CPU architectures K12 and Zen, and left Intel for two years in June 2020.