Etched is an AI chip startup building application-specific silicon for transformer inference, rather than general-purpose GPUs. Its flagship chip, Sohu, is designed to run large language models significantly faster and more efficiently than conventional hardware. This hub covers Etched’s product announcements, funding, and its place in the broader AI chip market.
Etched builds a chip that only runs transformer models, betting narrow focus beats Nvidia's flexibility — and investors are reportedly valuing the three-year-old startup at up to $20 billion.
Read more →Chipmaker Etched is negotiating a funding round that would value it at $20 billion, quadrupling its December price, as investors chase alternatives to Nvidia for AI inference, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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