The TechCrunch piece is stamped 11:37 AM PDT on Oct 19, and the byline is Marina Temkin. It reports that Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation. The company is described as a chip startup focused on inference. The round was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X. The page says Trace Capital is a new firm started by Ben Mahdavi, a co-founder of Quiet Capital. The other backers are written as Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, SanDisk, and T. Rowe Price. The sums are the article’s own dollar figures, not a conversion.

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The valuation comparison is in the same passage. The page says this round more than doubled the valuation from the $2.6 billion it fetched in late 2024. Five months earlier, the 10-year-old company reportedly received acquisition interest from Intel and Qualcomm, at valuations of as much as $5 billion. “Reportedly” is the word on the page. It is not an announced deal.

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Jim Keller is identified as chief executive. The page says he told Bloomberg that, after the company showed its Galaxy servers could run DeepSeek models, it decided to stay independent and raise more capital. The new capital is described as going toward scaling chips for serving open-weight models and for video generation. That is a statement of use, not a list of products already delivered. A valuation for another chip company at the end comes from an earlier report, and it is not added to this round.

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