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Etched is listed on DirJournal under AI Chip Makers in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Etched

Etched is an AI chip startup specializing in transformer-specific ASIC chips designed exclusively for running transformer-based AI models, founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Gavin Uberti, Chris Zhu, and Robert Wachen as Harvard sophomores, Etched manufactures the Sohu chip, the worlds first transformer-specific ASIC delivering an order of magnitude faster inference speeds than Nvidia GPUs for transformer workloads at significantly lower cost. The company has raised 120 million in Series A funding from Primary Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures, Hummingbird, Fundomo, and other investors with strong demand from AI inference customers seeking specialized silicon for production transformer model deployment.

DirJournal's Perspective

Editorial analysis

Etched's transformer-specific ASICs directly challenge Nvidia's GPU dominance by delivering dramatically faster inference at lower cost, targeting the high-volume production inference market where general-purpose chips waste significant capacity.

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About Etched

What does Etched do?
Etched is an AI chip startup specializing in transformer-specific ASIC chips designed exclusively for running transformer-based AI models, founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Where is Etched based?
Etched is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
When was Etched founded?
Etched was founded in 2022 and has been operating for 4 years.
Technical Grounding
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Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Founded
2022
Team Size
1-10 employees
Digital Footprint · Technical Entity Graph
  • Website
    etched.comHTTPS
  • Schema Type
    Organization
  • JSON-LD
    Active
  • NAP Vault ID
    Not assigned
  • Social Profiles
    None linked
  • Platform Tenure
    New listing
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Global
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Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00

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