Results from the ASIC puzzle(blog.janestreet.com)
90 points by eru | 43 comments
Jane Street blog post by Benjamin Devlin and Anish Singhani discussing the results and submissions from their ASIC design puzzle.
#asic on Hacker News
7 stories tagged asic, newest first.
Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge(jestoph.com)
394 points by anitil | 87 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author solved Jane Street's "Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?" challenge over a month-long effort.
OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell(newsletter.semianalysis.com)
555 points by bmulholland | 351 comments
SemiAnalysis article analyzing OpenAI's self-designed Jalapeño inference ASIC, comparing its TCO and throughput per MW against Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin.
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon(theregister.com)
902 points by itvision | 681 comments
The Register reports AMD has acquired AI chip startup Taalas, which hardwires model weights into silicon for fast inference, reaching up to 17,000 tokens per second.
The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)(taalas.com)
804 points by sidnarsipur | 436 comments
Taalas blog post by Ljubisa Bajic arguing that latency and cost limit AI adoption and presenting its approach to very fast (17k tokens/sec) inference hardware.
Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates(a1k0n.net)
402 points by a1k0n | 65 comments
Blog post describing demoscene-style entries for the Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition: ~4000-gate ASIC designs outputting VGA video and audio without CPU or memory.
TPU Deep Dive(henryhmko.github.io)
392 points by transpute | 80 comments
A personal blog post giving a technical deep dive into Google's TPU architecture, its hardware/software co-design, and how it differs from GPUs.