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Tokens Just Got Cheaper Again. Will That Fix the AI Chip Shortage — or Fuel It?

By BSR Admin / July 9, 2026 /

On June 30, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output during its introductory window — less than half the $5 and $25 the flagship Opus 4.8 charges, while scoring 63.2 to the flagship’s 69.2 on the SWE-bench Pro coding benchmark. Roughly ninety percent of the capability…

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17,000 Tokens/Second: Is Taalas’ Hardwired Silicon the Ultimate Solution to the AI Memory Wall and HBM Shortage?

By BSR Admin / February 22, 2026 /

TL;DR: The Taalas Revolution in 60 Seconds The Breakthrough: Taalas has unveiled the HC1 chip, achieving a massive 17,000 tokens/second on Llama 3.1 8B. It is roughly 10x faster and 20x cheaper than traditional GPU inference. The “Hardwired” Secret: Unlike GPUs that load software, Taalas etches the AI model directly into the silicon transistors. By…

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