AMD Acquires Taalas to Boost AI Inference by Etching Models Directly in Silicon
itvision · hn · 2026-08-07
AMD has acquired AI chip startup Taalas to significantly enhance inference performance by etching models directly into silicon. This approach of hardcoding large models into hardware offers a novel infrastructure path for cost-intensive AI inference.
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