Etched Sohu
Transformer-only ASIC betting on architecture lock-in.
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Etched Sohu vs Tenstorrent Blackhole
Etched Sohu (Etched) and Tenstorrent Blackhole (Tenstorrent) both sit in Chips & Compute. Etched Sohu is the cheaper entry point at System sales. Tenstorrent Blackhole shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (8 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Etched Sohu Etched | Tenstorrent Blackhole Tenstorrent |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | Sohu | Blackhole |
| Entry cost | System sales | from $999/unit |
| Pricing tiers | — | Cards $999 · Workstations $9999 · Servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy) $70000 |
| Model stack | transformer-only | Blackhole Tensix · Gemma-2 · Gemma4 · GLM-5.2 · Kimi-K3 · Llama-3.3-70B · Qwen3-32B · Tensix cores · tt-metal / tt-nn |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 8 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Transformer ASIC, Extreme throughput, Fixed architecture | RISC-V cores, open tt-metal stack, Ethernet-scaled cards, IP licensing, Passive, active and liquid cooling options, High-performance AI processing, Liquid-cooled workstations (TT-QuietBox), Scale-out servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy) |
Tenstorrent Blackhole
Open-source software stack and RISC-V based accelerators sold as cards and IP.
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