The SF Tensor Manifesto

1. The Future is Heterogeneous

CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, and domain-specific accelerators are proliferating. Software must treat them as first-class citizens.

2. Performance Should Be Accessible

Only a handful of experts know how to squeeze every drop of speed out of modern hardware. We believe optimization should be automatic, measurable, and universal.

3. Cost is a Dimension of Performance

It's not just about FLOPS — it's about FLOPS per dollar. By arbitraging across clouds and hardware, we democratize access to affordable compute.

4. Mathematics is the Ground Truth

At the end of the day, performance is math. Memory distance, cache locality, algorithmic complexity — all quantifiable, all optimizable.

5. Code Should Outlive Hardware

Your ideas shouldn't be trapped in CUDA or ROCm or a vendor's silo. A language like Emma lets you write once and inherit every new chip that emerges.

6. We Build Tools, Not Walled Gardens

Our commitment is to open, extensible, and developer-first infrastructure. We win only when developers do.