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Setting AI in Stone
Big Tech

Setting AI in Stone

Etched raised at $10.3 billion for transformer-only chips. AMD just bought Taalas, which etches model weights into transistors. Hank Reed on an industry betting that AI has stopped moving.

Hank Reed
AMD Bought Taalas, Whose Chips Burn Model Weights Straight Into Transistors
Hardware & Devices

AMD Bought Taalas, Whose Chips Burn Model Weights Straight Into Transistors

AMD agreed to acquire Toronto-based Taalas, whose chips hardwire an AI model's weights permanently into silicon to eliminate the memory reads that cap GPU inference speed. Taalas claims 17,000 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 8B at a tenth of an H200's power.

Maya Iverson