AMD acquires Taalas to add model-specific silicon to its AI inference stack
The Toronto chipmaker raised $219 million to hardwire AI models into silicon; AMD did not disclose the price and plans to pair the technology with Instinct GPUs.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
AMD is buying the design flow and engineering team needed to make model-specific inference chips, giving it an owned specialized engine to pair with Instinct GPUs as inference splits into distinct prompt and token-generation workloads.
AMD agreed Thursday to acquire Taalas, the Toronto AI inference chipmaker co-founded by former Tenstorrent CEO Ljubisa Bajic, giving AMD control of a specialized architecture designed to run individual AI models at high speed and lower power than general-purpose accelerators.…
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