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Feb 24, 2026 · Industry Insights

How Taalas HC1 Embeds Llama 3.1 8B in Silicon to Achieve 17k tokens/s

Taalas embeds the Llama 3.1 8B model directly into a 6nm ASIC, delivering 17,000 tokens per second—nearly ten times faster than top NVIDIA GPUs—while cutting system cost by over tenfold and power consumption by tenfold, albeit with limited flexibility and quantization trade‑offs.