AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon

The DecoderAugust 7, 2026en

AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them extremely fast but locks each chip to a single model. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second per user running Llama 3.1-8B. Google is reportedly working on a similar approach for Gemini. The article AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon appeared first on The Decoder .

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