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Commentary: AMD's Taalas acquisition echoing Jensen Huang's Groq strategy

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On February 20, 2026, Canadian AI chip startup Taalas unveiled its HC1 inference chip. Taalas said the chip ran the Llama 3.1 8B model at a single-user inference speed of 16,960 tokens per second, roughly 48 times the inference speed of an Nvidia B200 in the company's testing.

First report: AMD eyes Taalas: will the system ditch HBM, advanced packaging, and 3D stacking? — digitimes.com, 1d