AMD agreed to acquire AI chipmaker Taalas
The post describes Taalas’s approach as encoding trained AI model weights directly in silicon, rather than loading them from high-bandwidth memory.
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A post says AMD announced a definitive agreement on August 6, 2026, to acquire Toronto-based Taalas. It describes the company’s chips as embedding AI model weights in silicon. Citing vendor figures, the post says Taalas’s HC1 runs Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second per user on a single chip drawing about 200–250 watts.
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