Tenstorrent and Movellus Partner to Optimize Power in HPC and AI Chiplet Architectures

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2024 — Tenstorrent and Movellus today announced a strategic partnership, with Tenstorrent licensing Movellus’ digital IP portfolio for its AI and HPC chiplet solutions.

This collaboration aims to combine the strengths of both companies to develop chiplet-based technologies that enhance performance while optimizing power consumption. Movellus’ Aeonic Digital IP will enable Tenstorrent to implement advanced clocking techniques, reducing overall energy consumption in its processors.

“By collaborating with Movellus and integrating their technology, we are optimizing power efficiency in our processors and continuing to drive Tenstorrent’s leadership in scalable AI chiplets,” said Keith Witek, Chief Operating Officer of Tenstorrent.

Movellus’ Aeonic portfolio offers products designed to tackle critical infrastructure challenges in modern computing, such as on-die sensing, digital clocking, and power delivery. Notably, the digital adaptive clocking family facilitates architectural advancements like per-core distributed clocking and fine-grained dynamic frequency scaling (DFS).

Additionally, when coupled with droop detectors, these products provide advanced clock management capabilities, allowing for Vmin reduction by effectively mitigating droop while minimizing any performance impact. With these products it is possible to combine localized clocking, DFS, DVFS, and droop mitigation in a unified solution, simplifying design and easing integration.

“Movellus’ digital clocking technology enables us to distribute digital PLLs across our chip to provide a localized, fine-grained clocking, something that is not possible with traditional analog PLLs,” said Michael Smith, Senior Director of SoC Hardware Engineering at Tenstorrent. “In addition, their process agnostic digital architecture provides a cohesive software interface across multiple devices.”

“Tenstorrent is pioneering AI and HPC compute with their novel and scalable hardware architectures and software stack,” said Mo Faisal, CEO of Movellus. “We are grateful to be a part of this ground-up approach that is foundational to the advancement of AI and HPC compute with an intention of maximizing energy efficiency – a much-needed development in the age of AI.”

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About Movellus

Movellus provides critical technology that is integrated into an array of applications ranging from edge AI devices to performance-centric cloud datacenter compute and networking offerings. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with R&D centers in Michigan and Toronto.

About Tenstorrent

Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with U.S. offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Belgrade, Tokyo, Bangalore, Singapore, and Seoul, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.

Source: Movellus