Tenstorrent, the Toronto-based chip company led by veteran semiconductor architect Jim Keller, has partnered with Singapore’s CoreLab Technology to develop an open-architecture computing platform designed for robotics and automotive applications.
The platform, branded Atlantis, combines Tenstorrent’s high-performance RISC-V central processing unit (CPU) intellectual property with CoreLab’s energy-efficient system-on-chip (SoC) and processor technologies.
The companies said the collaboration aims to address the growing demand for AI computing requirements, particularly in autonomous driving and next-generation robotics.
Unlike proprietary alternatives, the firms have positioned Atlantis as a customisable platform with support for multiple open-architecture CPU designs. The companies said the system’s RISC-V cores can be deeply tailored by customers to balance performance, energy efficiency, and cost, while targeting “new levels of embodied intelligence” in machines.
Keller, who previously led chip design at Apple, Tesla, and Intel, described the project as part of a broader effort to extend RISC-V adoption into emerging markets. “Our mission together is to bring RISC-V to as many different markets as possible,” he said, pointing to Tenstorrent’s Ascalon CPU as the performance foundation of the initiative.
CoreLab’s Chairman Allen Wu, a former senior Arm executive credited with building its multibillion-dollar CPU licensing business, said the tie-up would provide an alternative to proprietary chip ecosystems. “Together with Tenstorrent, we are creating a comprehensive computing platform that can serve diverse markets and drive broader RISC-V adoption,” he said.
The launch highlights intensifying competition among chipmakers to supply processors for Edge computing, where systems must balance high performance with low power consumption and safety. It also underscores the growing momentum of RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture that has drawn interest as a lower-cost, more flexible rival to Arm and x86 designs.
Tenstorrent and CoreLab said Atlantis would be offered as a scalable and safety-ready portfolio for customers in the automotive and robotics sectors, with the intention of accelerating innovation while reducing dependence on proprietary architectures.
