Taalas Rumored to Etch Qwen 3.5 27B Into Silicon — $600-$800 PCIe Cards Could Ship by Spring

r/singularity·medium signal

A r/singularity post (436 upvotes, 190 comments) discusses Taalas's plan to burn the entire Qwen 3.5 27B model into a PCIe ASIC card. Taalas has already demonstrated 17,000 tok/s for Llama 3.1 8B using their weights-to-silicon compiler with TSMC, achieving 2-month turnaround from model weights to deployable hardware. With $169M in funding and production costs rumored at $300-$400, the community is debating whether $600-$800 retail makes this viable for local inference.