Etched (company)
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 2022 |
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| Headquarters | , |
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| Products | Sohu (transformer ASIC) |
Number of employees | 35 (2024) |
| Website | www |
Etched.ai Inc. is an American semiconductor start-up that is designing custom ASICs for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads; its first generation product is Sohu, the first chip purpose built for transformer AI architecture, the kinds of large language models that power not only ChatGPT, but Anthropic PBC’s Claude and Google LLC's Gemini, as well as image generators such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.
Founded in 2022 by three Harvard University drop-outs, Gavin Uberti, Chris Zhu and Robert Wachen, the company raised US$120 million in a Series A round in June 2024 to fabricate its first chips at TSMC. The round was co-led by venture-capital firms Primary Venture Partners and Patrick O'Shaughnessy's Positive Sum Ventures. Other investors include ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, Peter Thiel, and Replit CEO Amjad Masad.