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Etched
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Etched is a semiconductor company founded in 2022 that designs application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) exclusively optimized for transformer-based AI architectures. Its flagship product, Sohu, embeds transformer models directly into silicon to deliver dramatically faster and more energy-efficient AI inference than general-purpose GPUs, without requiring Nvidia hardware. Etched fabricates its chips through TSMC and operates its own 2-megawatt data center, serving customers such as Jane Street with over $1B in signed contracts.
Company Founded in 2022