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

AMD has agreed to acquire Toronto-based startup Taalas, which develops chips hard-wired for specific AI models, aiming to enhance its AI accelerator lineup with more efficient inference hardware. Taalas' technology integrates storage and compute on a single chip, promising significant improvements in speed, cost, and power consumption for AI inference tasks.