AMD Snaps Up Taalas Weeks After Cerebras Deal, Chasing Chips That Bake AI Models Into Silicon

Just a few weeks after AMD inked a deal with Cerebras to boost the inference capabilities of the upcoming Helios rack-scale system, it has acquired Taalas, a startup that designs chips specifically for inference-related workloads. Taalas bakes AI models directly into silicon chips, and AMD has just…