Taalas hardwires Llama into silicon to hit 17,000 tokens/s
Taalas just introduced the HC1, an AI accelerator that bakes the Llama 3.1 8B model directly into hardware to generate a blistering 17,000 tokens per second. By merging compute and storage on a single chip, it claims 40 times the speed of Nvidia's B200 at a fraction of the cost, though it is permanently tied to that specific model.