Core Scientific shareholders rejected CoreWeave's $9 billion all-stock acquisition in October 2025, and on July 28, 2026, Core Scientific announced a partnership with AMD to deliver over 500 megawatts…
AMD has agreed to acquire Toronto-based Taalas, a startup founded in 2023 that develops AI inference silicon tailored to specific models, to expand its inference capabilities for real-time and high-vo…
Tom's Hardware's July 30 benchmark of 128GB unified-memory machines found Apple's Mac Studio M4 Max decodes dense models 2.26x faster than AMD's Strix Halo mini-PC, but the gap shrinks to 1.25x on spa…
The AI bubble will not burst because AI fails but because deployable supply and capital commitments grow faster than monetizable demand, according to Breaking Analysis. Global semiconductor revenue is…
AMD announced a definitive agreement on August 6, 2026, to acquire Toronto-based AI-chip startup Taalas, adding model-specific inference silicon to its AI roadmap; financial terms were not disclosed. …
Red Hat published a post arguing that 'the CPU is back' for LLM inference, citing an Intel and Georgia Tech paper that found CPU-side tool processing accounts for 50–90% of total latency in agentic wo…
GMKtec's EVO-X3, a tower PC with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB unified memory, and an OcuLink port, was reviewed by Wendell of Level1Techs, who called it 'one of the fastest Strix Halo machines' he h…
OpenAI paused development of its Astra model after internal evaluations found it can independently identify and execute attacks on well-protected real-world systems, crossing a 'critical cybersecurity…
AMD agreed to acquire Taalas, a 25-person Toronto-based chip startup that builds model-specific silicon, for an undisclosed amount. Taalas's first chip, the HC1, runs only Llama 3.1 8B, with weights h…
AMD announced on August 6, 2026, a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that embeds AI models directly into silicon, to integrate its technology into AMD's accelerator roadm…
AMD acquired AI inference startup Taalas for an undisclosed sum this week, aiming to bake AI inference directly into its chips. The move follows Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's GTC 2026 disclosure that GPU …
AMD's RDNA 4m integrated graphics have been merged into the Mesa 26.3 open-source driver stack under the GFX1171 GPU target, marking its official support in the open-source ecosystem. The RDNA 4m, whi…
AMD acquired Taalas to etch model weights directly into silicon, achieving 17,000 tokens/sec inference speed—48x faster than Nvidia GPUs—and reducing hardware needs for trillion-parameter models to ju…
AMD has agreed to acquire Canadian custom silicon startup Taalas for an undisclosed amount, integrating its technology into its AI accelerator roadmap and Instinct GPUs to target the growing inference…
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Canadian designer of chips that embed a trained AI model's weights into custom silicon, aiming to reduce the cost and time of enterprise AI inference. Analysts caut…
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Canadian designer of chips that embed trained AI model weights into custom silicon for enterprise inference, aiming to cut costs and power use. Analysts warn the mo…
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max edged past Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3 on Artificial Analysis's Agentic Index, though rankings fluctuated within minutes, highlighting tight clustering among frontier models. OpenA…
AMD has acquired Taalas, a company previously highlighted in Latent Space's custom ASIC thesis, signaling AMD's commitment to custom silicon for AI inference. The acquisition was announced amid ongoin…
AMD announced it will acquire Taalas, a startup making model-specific AI inference chips that burn model weights directly into CMOS, claiming up to 17,000 tokens per second per user on its HC1 demonst…
Apple Inc. could dominate the small and medium enterprise (SME) AI agent market with its Mac Studio hardware, but it is prioritizing iPhone production due to higher profit margins, leaving the gap to …