AI Landscape / AI Chips & Compute
Etched
Builds a chip designed specifically to run transformer models.
Company profile
Etched develops specialized AI chips for running transformer models, aiming to reduce large language model inference costs, alongside co-designed racks and software. websets.exa.aiEtched website
Its chip development centers on Sohu, with investors including Stripes, Peter Thiel, Positive Sum, and Ribbit Capital. linkedin.com
- Founded
- 2022
- Founders
- Not publicly reported
- Headquarters
- Not publicly reported
- Chief executive
- Not publicly reported
- Employees
- Not publicly reported
- Ownership
- Private
- Total funding
- Not publicly reported
- Latest funding round
- Not publicly reported
- Valuation
- Not publicly reported
- Revenue
- Not publicly reported
Drawn from Wikidata, Wikipedia, the company's own site and news and web sources; each figure links to its source. Researched Oct 19, 2026.
Latest news
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