AMD filing: it will pay about $2.9B in cash and stock for model-specific chip startup Taalas
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- 5 November 2026
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Key facts
- Taalas founded Aug 2023 by former AMD executives Ljubisa Bajic, Lejla Bajic and Drago Ignjatovic; first chip tailored to Meta’s Llama models
- AMD plans to build Taalas technology into future inference chips
- Same quarter: AMD Q3 revenue $13.38B (+45%), data centre $8.5B (+97%), and a ~$1.1B charge tied to its OpenAI and Meta chip deals (Reuters, Yahoo Finance)
What happened
Model-specific silicon (weights printed into the chip) moves into a major chipmaker.
Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 2 press
Press
- Globe and Mail: AMD to pay $2.9 billion for AI chip firm Taalastheglobeandmail.com, press
- CNBC: AMD Q3 2026 earningscnbc.com, press
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