Tag: Custom Silicon

Toronto startup Taalas joins AMD to hard-code models in chips

AMD's Taalas deal adds inference chips whose final layers are locked to a single model.

Anthropic hires hardware engineers to design custom Claude chips

Anthropic confirms it is hiring engineers to co-design custom chips for Claude while keeping AWS, Google, Nvidia and…

Alphabet stock rises on report of new Frozen v2 AI chip for Gemini models

Alphabet shares rise on reports of a new Frozen v2 server chip designed to run Gemini models 6-10x…

Meta starts production of in-house Iris AI chip in September

Meta plans to manufacture its first custom AI chip codenamed Iris starting September as part of a massive…

Google Splits Its Next Gen TPU: One Chip for Training, One for Agents

Google bifurcated its eighth generation TPU into a training specific chip and an inference focused chip, claiming twice…