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THE CHIP THAT WOULDN'T STAY CAUGHT.

By Zimbo · October 21, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: a smiling TENSTORRENT chip walks away from two giant mousetraps labeled INTEL and QUALCOMM baited with cash stacks, beside a Tenstorrent server rack glowing DEEPSEEK, a bearded founder walking alongside.
Tenstorrent raised $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips after snubbing buyouts from Intel and Qualcomm — Jim Keller says the independence bet paid off once its servers ran DeepSeek.Zimbo for AI News Page

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