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...
AI chip competition is widening beyond raw performance, a shift that matters for global cloud providers, device makers, and investors...
Breaking the inference barrier requires a rethink of the whole system architecture, not just faster compute. This was the key takeaway...