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

Taalas Specializes to Extremes for Extraordinary Token Speed

• The AI chip startup is borrowing some ideas from the structured ASICs of the early 2000s to rapidly turn around new tape-outs for different models The post Taalas Specializes to