Taalas HC1 hardwired Llama-3.1 8B AI accelerator delivers up to 17,000 tokens/s

Taalas HC1 hardwired Llama-3.1 8B AI accelerator delivers up to 17,000 tokens/s

• Taalas HC1 is an AI accelerator hardwired (i.e, implemented in hardware) with Llama-3.1 8B and delivering close to 17,000 tokens/s of AI performance with the model, outperforming

Open Hardware · February 22, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 258 words