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Jim Keller

Chief Executive Officer, Tenstorrent

Search every verified Jim Keller interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jim Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent, has been publicly discussing the company's progress in AI computing and its focus on RISC-V-based technology. At a May 2026 deployment event, he announced that Tenstorrent's Galaxy server, developed with partner Quanta, is now in production and shipping in volume, and that the company is running a "supercluster 36" of 36 connected Galaxy boxes. He also stated that Tenstorrent is releasing performance benchmarks and has a "pipeline to keep winning benchmarks by a lot." In earlier appearances, Keller described Tenstorrent's mission as building AI computers for inference and training using proprietary RISC-V CPU designs and an open-source software stack, with a goal of making AI technology lower-cost and easier to program for smaller companies, not just large tech firms. He has also said the company is licensing its IP and selling low-cost development systems. Keller has expressed views on the broader AI industry, stating in a December 2024 Bloomberg interview that "we are definitely in the hype cycle" but that AI will "dominate computing over the next ten years." He has also commented on the competitive landscape, saying he does not focus on Nvidia and that there is a large market for smaller AI engines, open-source software, and licensable IP. In a 2024 podcast, he described CUDA as "a swamp not a moat," arguing that most AI programs are relatively simple. Keller has also discussed his career history, including his roles at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and Intel, and has spoken about his belief that Moore's law is not dead. He has been involved with Tenstorrent since 2020, initially as CTO, and became CEO in January 2023.

Recent appearances

  • Ep 11: Future of AI Computing and How to Build & Nurture Hardware Teams with Jim Keller, Tenstorrent

    May 11, 2026 · 📺 Computer Architecture Podcast

    Jim Keller is the CTO of Tenstorrent, and a veteran computer architect. Prior to Tenstorrent, he has held roles of Senior Vice President at Intel, Vice President of Autopilot at Tesla, Vice President and Chief Architect at AMD, and at PA Semi which was acquired by Apple. Jim has led multiple successful silicon designs over the decades, from the DEC Alpha processors, to AMD K7/K8/K12, HyperTransport and the AMD Zen family, the Apple A4/A5 processors, and Telsa's self-driving car chip.

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  • TT-Deploy | Where AI Runs, Jim Keller

    May 04, 2026 · 📺 Tenstorrent

    TT-Deploy, May 1st, 2026 – Jim Keller reads our love letter to DeepSeek v4, reviews how Tenstorrent achieves unlimited scale, and shows off our video gen benchmark on Artificial Analysis. He closes with Tenstorrent is where AI runs.

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  • TT-Deploy

    May 01, 2026 · 📺 Tenstorrent

    Join as we unveil Tenstorrent's AI solutions deployed at scale. See the full breadth of what we've built — validated by real ...Please welcome Jim Keller. Clicker we have a clicker i got everything but the clicker a. That's a sad story. You know when you ...

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  • Fireside Chat with Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller | Ep.04

    March 31, 2026 · 📺 Archerman Capital

    The Inaugural AI Summit at Harvard University Co-hosted by Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI), Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) and Archerman Capital Fireside Chat with Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller: From Silicon to Intelligence — The Future of Compute for AI | Ep.04 Speakers: Jim Keller, CEO at Tenstorrent Francesca Dominici, Faculty Director at HDSI (co-moderator) Harry Archerman, Founder & CEO at Archerman Capital (co-moderator) 00:22 Early career at DEC & learning to handle technical disagreements 05:42 Apple years — building the A-series chips 08:20 AMD Zen — a cultural turnaround,…

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  • FII Priority Miami 2025: Jim Keller - CEO, Tenstorrent

    March 12, 2026 · 📺 FII Institute

    Jim Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent, discusses the company's focus on building AI computers using RISC-V CPU technology. These AI systems differ from regular computers by running trillions of operations in parallel, which is crucial for the upcoming AI revolution. He highlights the importance of making AI technology accessible to smaller companies, not just tech giants, by offering lower-cost, easier-to-program solutions. Keller emphasizes the role of experimentation in technological advancements, drawing parallels to the GPU revolution. He is excited about AI's potential to enhance productivity an…

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  • Artificial Intelligence by Jim Keller

    January 04, 2026 · 📺 Thad Roberts

    Also posted ‪@TheMemesofDestruction‬ Jim Keller—computer architect and CEO of Tenstorrent—presents a systems-level introduction to artificial intelligence, focusing on architecture, scaling, and physical constraints. Drawing on decades of experience designing CPUs, GPUs, and large-scale computing systems, Keller explains how intelligence emerges from computation, how modern AI systems are built, and where their real limits lie.

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  • TT-Blueprint | Welcome and CPU IP Update | Jim Keller and Miles Dooley

    October 23, 2025 · 📺 Tenstorrent

    Watch Jim Keller and Miles Dooley kick off Tenstorrent's IP launch event in San Francisco, TT-Blueprint. Tenstorrent IP | https://tenstorrent.com/ip RISC-V CPU | https://tenstorrent.com/ip/risc-v-cpu Open Chiplet Atlas | https://www.openchipletatlas.org/ X   / tenstorrent   Discord   / discord  

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  • The Architecture of "Open" Intelligence

    October 14, 2025 · 📺 Baya Systems

    In this episode of TechThreads: Weaving the Intelligent Future, legendary chip architect Jim Keller joins Nandan Nayampally, Baya Systems’ Chief Commercial Officer, to explore how openness, modularity, and simplicity are redefining the architecture of intelligence. From his early work on Apple’s A4 through A7 processors to today’s AI-driven computing revolution, Jim shares how every leap in performance has come from breaking complexity down into composable, modular layers. Referencing The Systems Bible, he explains why “you can’t fix broken complicated systems”, and why the only path forward…

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  • Tenstorrent's Keller: We're in an AI Hype Cycle

    December 02, 2024 · 📺 Bloomberg Tech

    Jim Keller of Tenstorrent expects AI to dominate the computing sector over the next decade. He joins Caroline Hyde to discuss on "Bloomberg Technology." -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube:    / @bloombergtech     Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Technology" with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow here:    • 'Bloomberg Tech' With Ed Ludlow Full Episodes     Get the latest in tech from Silicon Valley and around the world here: https://www.bloomberg.com/technology Connect with us on... X:   / technology   Facebook:   / bloombergtechnology   In…

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  • Oral History of Jim Keller

    October 14, 2024 · 📺 Computer History Museum

    Interviewed by Douglas Fairbairn on 2024-07-08 in Mountain View, CA © Computer History Museum Jim Keller is a legendary computer architect. He has designed or impacted virtually every major computer architecture from the 1970’s through 2024. Jim was born in 1958 in Pennsylvania as the son of a mechanical engineer. He was dyslexic and didn’t learn to read until the end of the third grade, but later became a voracious reader. He went on to Penn State because a girl he liked was enrolled there and majored in EE with a minor in philosophy. Upon graduation he went to work at Harris Semiconductor…

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  • 61DAC Keynote: Jim Keller, CEO, Tenstorrent

    July 22, 2024 · 📺 DACtv

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  • Endgame: Big Tech Bytes the Dust - Jim Keller, Tenstorrent, Tesla, Apple, AMD, Intel #261

    July 07, 2024 · 📺 The DemystifySci Podcast

    Jim Keller is a microprocessor engineer who has run the gauntlet of today’s leading tech companies during their peak performance years. He’s designed for Intel, AMD, Apple, and Tesla, he’s worked for Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he’s survived the boom and bust cycle of the tech world, and is still surfing a wave of progress at least partially of his making. He’s currently CEO of Tenstorrent, an AI chip startup that’s out to unseat NVIDIA, and is the co-founder of Atomic Semi, which aims to produce the world’s first tabletop semiconductor fabrication device. Normally, Jim’s interviews are all abo…

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Notable quotes

“So, everyone understands creative tension, right? So, so there was really during the internet boom back and like the economists every year would publish a article said we're in a boom there's going to be a crash in one year they said we said that three years in a row we give up. We don't know when. Right? And of course it was next year. I guess they said we're in a boom it's going to crash next year. And they were wr”

“So, first technically Nvidia is a GPU company right and GPUs were designed to run small programs on lots of pixels and then they invested in a software stock called CUDA for HPC computing and it actually paid off for AI. I don't think they ever made a lot of money on HPC but the AI worked really well and then they've extended it with a what's called a tensor processor. So AI is basically math on tensors which you cou”

“So, so I think I wanted to show two things. The current limitation of LLMs is not about the computational structure. The current limitations of LLM is they're data intelligent with a relatively simple brilliant but simple sort of once you know the answer. You know, E= MC² is kind of cool when you think about it. It's also ironic because we don't know E is or M or why C is C. So it's like the most ef based on three un”

“We have a really simple mission. I want to make AI and silicon cheaper. Everybody draws those graphs. Every year it gets more and more expensive. The license fees goes up. The tape out costs go up. The IP cost goes up. That's not the future I want to live in. Like literally that's not where I want to be. I want to make silicon cheaper. I want to make AI cheaper. I want to make IP cheaper and easier to use.”

“Quite a few people come to us and they say we want to be able to own our technology cuz we're often spending billions of dollars on technology and they're wondering like am I going to be able to have it next year iterate on it and then quite a few regions of the world you know they're basically sort of powering up in their tech stack right and they've been buying computers from Intel Nvidia you know IP from ARM but t”

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