AMD deepens AI inference bet with Taalas deal as chip race heats up

Aug 6 : Advanced Micro Devices said on Thursday it would buy chip startup Taalas for an undisclosed amount, strengthening its technology as it taps into the rapidly growing market for AI inference workloads.Toronto-based Taalas develops specialized silicon designed to reduce computing and memory bottlenecks in AI infer

Taalas' current chip runs a small version of Meta's Llama 3.1, though the company is working on chips for bigger and more advanced models.

Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second