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AMD agrees to buy Taalas as inference chips move to the forefront
AMD did not disclose deal terms, but the acquisition is aimed at integrating Taalas technology into its accelerator roadmap and combining it with AMD Instinct GPUs for system-level AI inference solutions.
Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to acquire Taalas, a chip startup focused on AI inference, as specialized inference processors become a key area of competition among semiconductor companies, according to Yahoo Finance.
AMD said it plans to integrate Taalas technology into its accelerator roadmap and develop system-level solutions that pair the technology with AMD Instinct GPUs. The company also described the acquisition as a way to strengthen its AI portfolio with differentiated inference performance and efficiency.
The article notes that AMD’s offer follows a string of smaller inference-focused deals, including the November acquisition of MK1, the June purchase of MEXT, and the July addition of FastFlowLM to its artificial intelligence group.
Taalas’s materials cited in the story claim its HC1 demonstrator can deliver around 17,000 tokens per second per user running Llama 3.1 8B, and the company says its systems can be built and used at lower cost and power by avoiding HBM, advanced packaging, and liquid cooling. The story also points to AMD’s push as part of a broader shift in inference computing, following Nvidia’s earlier $20 billion deal with Groq for inference technology and talent.