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Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day

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65 points fidotron | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.504s | source
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littlestymaar ◴[03 Apr 25 20:50 UTC] No.43575210[source]▶
Re-using a comment a wrote some time ago:

Tenstorrent really needs to put more VRAM on their cards.

If chinese companies can hack Nvidia GPUs with 48 or 96GB vram at a competitive price, surely Tensorrent can too.

Variants of n300d at $2500 for 48GB and $3900 for 96GB would be instant hits.

~~24GB for $1500 simply isn't gonna do it.~~ (old part of the comment related to the old n300 which can be update with: 32B for $1400 still isn't enough for success. There's some progress, but that's still too low considering it's exotic hardware that will lead to tons of compatibility issues).

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1. PinkiesBrain ◴[04 Apr 25 08:56 UTC] No.43579793[source]▶
It's not meant as a workstation/tinkering system, the card without networking is not the main aim. If you're willing to pay 4k for 96GB, just get 3 with networking.

That said, it missed the boat on MoE. The future is two tiered memory systems, NVIDIA has already announced they are doing that. Ideally these cards should have 4-8 DIMM slots for a couple channels of DDR5.

That would also make them far more useful for workstations/tinkering.

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2. littlestymaar ◴[05 Apr 25 21:12 UTC] No.43596854[source]▶
> It's not meant as a workstation

They are literally selling a workstation built around these chips though: https://tenstorrent.com/hardware/tt-quietbox