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AMD ACQUIRES TAALAS TO BAKE AI MODELS INTO SILICON

AMD has acquired Toronto-based Taalas, a startup that embeds machine learning model weights directly into silicon chips to accelerate AI inference performance. Early demonstrations show the approach achieving up to 17,000 tokens per second.

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Advanced Micro Devices to Buy Startup Taalas for New AI Chips

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is buying Canadian startup Taalas, a move that will let it offer another type of artificial…

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AMD acquires Toronto-based Taalas, which integrates model weights directly into silicon to boost inference performance, for an undisclosed sum (Tobias Mann/The Register)

Tobias Mann / The Register: AMD acquires Toronto-based Taalas, which integrates model weights directly into silicon to b…

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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

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

AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them ext…

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