Taalas is what Etched should have been. - zach's tech blog
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I’ve been an outspoken critic of Etched, the chip company that claims to be making AI chips that beat Nvidia by aggressively focusing on accelerating transformers and reducing programmability. This is a bad idea, because Nvidia is already focused on accelerating transformers, and they have more money and talent than Etched. Recently, though, a new chip company called Taalas announced their first silicon. They’re also focusing on accelerating transformers by reducing programmability, but in a much, much more aggressive way. Etched wanted to build a chip that could only accelerate…
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