About 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.