Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips

In Brief Posted: 11:37 AM PDT · October 19, 2026 Image Credits: Tenstorrent Marina Temkin Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips Tenstorrent, a chip startup focused on inference, has raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation.

简讯发布于：太平洋夏令时间 2026 年 10 月 19 日上午 11:37 图片来源：Tenstorrent Marina Temkin Tenstorrent 以 62 亿美元估值融资，旨在扩展开源权重 AI 芯片。Tenstorrent 是一家专注于推理的芯片初创公司，已筹集 15 亿美元资金，估值达到 62 亿美元。

The round comes five months after the 10-year-old Nvidia challenger reportedly received acquisition interest from Intel and Qualcomm at valuations of as much as $5 billion.

此轮融资距离这家成立 10 年的英伟达挑战者据传收到英特尔和高通高达 50 亿美元的收购意向仅过去五个月。

The fresh round, which more than doubled Tenstorrent’s valuation from the $2.6 billion it fetched in late 2024, was led by Trace Capital, a new firm launched by Quiet Capital co-founder Ben Mahdavi, and Innovation X. Other backers included Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, SanDisk, and T. Rowe Price.

这轮新融资使 Tenstorrent 的估值较 2024 年底的 26 亿美元翻了一番多，由 Quiet Capital 联合创始人 Ben Mahdavi 创立的新公司 Trace Capital 和 Innovation X 领投。其他支持者包括 Cadence Ventures、Eclipse、Fidelity、SanDisk 和 T. Rowe Price。

Jim Keller, a prominent microprocessor engineer and Tenstorrent CEO, told Bloomberg that the company decided to remain independent and raise more capital after it showed that its Galaxy servers could run DeepSeek models.

知名微处理器工程师兼 Tenstorrent 首席执行官 Jim Keller 向彭博社表示，在证明其 Galaxy 服务器能够运行 DeepSeek 模型后，公司决定保持独立并筹集更多资金。

The new capital will go toward scaling chips tailored for serving open-weight AI models and video generation. Tenstorrent is part of a wave of AI hardware startups trying to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance.

新资金将用于扩展专为服务开源权重 AI 模型和视频生成而定制的芯片。Tenstorrent 是试图削弱英伟达主导地位的一波 AI 硬件初创公司之一。

Among them is Etched, an AI chip maker that was fielding investment offers at valuations of $40 billion or more, TechCrunch reported earlier this month.

据 TechCrunch 本月初报道，其中包括 AI 芯片制造商 Etched，该公司当时正在处理估值 400 亿美元或更高的投资要约。