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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 extremely fast but locks each chip to a single model. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second per user running Llama 3.1-8B. Google is reportedly working on a similar approach for Gemini.<br /> The article AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon appeared first on The Decoder. [...]

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: Hitting NVIDIA where it hurts

AMD has finally done it. For years it's tried to undercut NVIDIA with slightly cheaper, but less capable, video cards like the Radeon 6700 XT and 7900 XT. And sure, it's still following that [...]

Match Score: 104.51

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AMD Buys Taalas to Put Hard-Wired AI Models in Its Accelerator Roadmap

AMD has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup whose chips are custom-built around individual AI models, the company announced on August 6, 2026. The deal folds spec [...]

Match Score: 83.05

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Google's "Frozen v2" chip reportedly bakes Gemini's architecture directly into silicon for efficiency gains

Google is developing "Frozen v2," a server chip that bakes the Gemini architecture directly into hardware. According to internal sources, it could be 6 to 10 times more efficient than curren [...]

Match Score: 78.41

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB review: Finally, a powerful $350 GPU

NVIDIA releases a brand new video card and AMD follows up with a cheaper one. That's basically been the cycle of the GPU industry for the last decade, with NVIDIA typically leading the pack and A [...]

Match Score: 64.80

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: A no-compromise CPU for demanding gamers

How can we push CPUs forward? That's the question the computing industry has been asking since the Intel 4004 processor launched in 1971. Chipmakers have tried cranking up clock speeds, adding mu [...]

Match Score: 64.12

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Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model see and operate your screen

Google has integrated "Computer Use" directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model operate computers, browsers, and mobile devices on its own. On the OSWorld benchmark, it scores 78.4, p [...]

Match Score: 54.49

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AMD's $549 Radeon 9070 and $599 9070 XT are gunning for NVIDIA's mid-range throne

AMD's decision to start off with mid-range RDNA 4 GPUs now seems prescient. NVIDIA's high-end RTX 5090 and 5080 are already selling well beyond their absurdly high prices, if you can find an [...]

Match Score: 53.89

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Framework Laptop 13 (2025) with AMD Ryzen AI 300 review: The usual iterative upgrade

You might know the story by now: Framework makes repairable, modular laptops where you can sub in new components for old or broken ones. It’s been two years since the company debuted an AMD mainboar [...]

Match Score: 51.87

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NVIDIA, AMD and Intel aimed for maximum power at CES 2025

There was no question that NVIDIA's RTX 5000 GPUs would be one of the biggest stories at CES 2025, and I figured Intel and AMD to arrive with some new hardware of their own. But I didn't exp [...]

Match Score: 49.08