Etched

Overview

Builds AI inference hardware by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing methods for customers running frontier models with prefill and decode workloads.

Part of the New York ecosystem

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Timeline

1. Jul 2026Funding Roundsiliconangle.com ↗

   $10.3B growth round led by Sequoia.

2. Nov 2025Funding Roundtechcrunch.com ↗

   Series B; Sohu transformer-only ASIC for LLM inference.