Taalas

Deals & regulation

1. Aug 6

   Acquired by AMD

Trends

• AI labs move inference onto custom silicon

Items

1. Aug 6

   AMD to acquire Taalas

   The Toronto startup's model-specific integrated circuits cast a model's weights directly into transistors, with its HC1 test chip serving Llama 3.1 8B at about 17,000 tokens per second; it is AMD's third AI acquisition in nine months.