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AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second In AMD’s latest bid to upset Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware, the House of Zen has acquired AI chip company Taalas, which bakes model…
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Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second In AMD’s latest bid to upset Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware, the House of Zen has acquired AI chip company Taalas, which bakes model weights directly into silicon in a process that promises to boost inference performance by an order of magnitude or more.
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