Tag: custom silicon
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Xiaomi Shows AI Cube Prototype: Three Chips, 1.22TB/s
Xiaomi unveiled the AI Cube Prototype at its Xuanjie chip technical briefing on August 24, 2026 — an engineering-sample mini PC built around three of the company’s own chips at once, aimed squarely at running large language models locally. The headline number is the 1.22 TB/s bandwidth of the new Xuanjie O100 accelerator, but the […]
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Alibaba’s RISC-V C950 Runs Qwen3.8-27B at 30 Tokens/s, No GPU
Alibaba’s XuanTie team announced Day-0 support for Qwen3.8-27B on the C950 RISC-V processor on August 18, 2026 — a 27-billion-parameter dense model decoding at more than 30 tokens per second with a 1.9-second time-to-first-token, on CPU cores alone, with no GPU and no binary translation layer. The figures come from a 64-core C950 target configuration, […]
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AMD Acquires Taalas, the Startup Etching LLMs Into Silicon
On August 6, 2026, AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas — the Toronto startup whose chips abandon the idea of loading a model from memory altogether, and instead etch its weights permanently into the transistors themselves. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close […]
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Taalas HC1: Hardwiring Llama 3.1 Into Silicon for 17,000 Tokens/Second
Key points On February 21, 2026, Toronto-based startup Taalas unveiled the HC1, a custom ASIC that hard-codes Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B language model directly into silicon. Taalas says the HC1 delivers up to 17,000 tokens per second per user, roughly ten times faster than today’s best GPU-based solutions, at a fraction of the cost and […]