AMD TO BUY STARTUP TAALAS FOR NEW AI CHIPS

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AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based chip startup Taalas to expand its specialized AI inference portfolio. Taalas develops custom silicon architectures that hard-wire individual AI model weights directly into semiconductor metal layers during manufacturing. AMD plans to integrate Taalas' low-cost, ultra-efficient inference technology directly into its broader accelerator roadmap alongside Instinct GPUs.