Hardware·
One model per chip: AMD bought Taalas, whose test part hit 17,000 tokens a second
Taalas casts a model's weights into transistors. Its 6nm test chip served Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second, and AMD just bought the company.
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Helios
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First covered May 7, 2026, latest Aug 10, 2026
Hardware·
AMD's Helios rack packs 72 GPUs and 31TB of memory to take on Nvidia
AMD launched the Instinct MI455X and its Helios rack-scale system, tying 72 GPUs and 31TB of HBM4 into one machine to challenge Nvidia's data-center grip.
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AMD's data center revenue jumped 57% to $5.8 billion in Q1. Its stock closed up 18%.
AMD reported Q1 revenue of $10.25B, up 38% YoY. Data center hit $5.8B (+57%) and Q2 guidance midpoint of $11.2B beat consensus by roughly $700M.