INTEL AND QUALCOMM REPORTEDLY BID UP TO $10B FOR TENSTORRENT ON AN UNVERIFIED COST CLAIM

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Intel and Qualcomm are reportedly bidding up to $10 billion for Tenstorrent, whose roughly $1,000 Blackhole chips run the BlockFloat8 number format natively, where GPUs with native support list near $40,000. Smallest.ai says its text-to-speech model, with over 80% running in 8-bit, costs about a quarter as much to run as on Nvidia's L40S. The figures are vendor-published and unverified, and no deal has closed.