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  • AMD Acquires Taalas to Build Chips Hard-Wired for Specific AI Models

    AMD announced on August 6 that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that builds processors customized around individual AI models. The deal adds specialized inference silicon to AMD's accelerator portfolio, targeting a class of workloads where a model is fixed and the goal is maximum throughput at minimum cost. Taalas, founded in 2023, produces what it calls Hardcore Models: chips whose circuitry is laid out for one specific model's weights. The custo

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  • Anthropic assembles in-house chip design team for Claude

    Anthropic assembles in-house chip design team for Claude Anthropic confirmed on August 5 that it is building an internal team to design custom silicon for its Claude AI models, joining a growing list of AI labs that have concluded off-the-shelf chips are no longer sufficient for the scale they need. The company is recruiting engineers with chip design experience for what it calls a "custom silicon team," according to a job listing. The group will co-design hardware and AI models in tandem, aim

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