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Etched

Etched is an AI hardware company building Sohu, a transformer-only ASIC designed to accelerate inference for large language models by hard-wiring the transformer architecture directly into silicon. Etched markets Sohu as an alternative to general-purpose GPUs for transformer inference, claiming order-of-magnitude throughput improvements on models such as Llama 70B when deployed in eight-chip server configurations. The chip is fabricated on TSMC's 4nm process with 144 GB of HBM3E per package. As of mid-2026 Etched has raised more than 625 million dollars at a 5 billion dollar valuation but has not yet shipped Sohu to customers in volume, and there is no public Etched API or developer surface. This profile is company-and-product-only and intentionally has an empty apis list.

Etched is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include AI Hardware, ASIC, Transformer, Inference, and Accelerator.

Etched’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 11 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Etched Domain Security

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Company 8

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: etched
name: Etched
description: Etched is an AI hardware company building Sohu, a transformer-only ASIC designed to accelerate inference for
  large language models by hard-wiring the transformer architecture directly into silicon. Etched markets Sohu as an alternative
  to general-purpose GPUs for transformer inference, claiming order-of-magnitude throughput improvements on models such as
  Llama 70B when deployed in eight-chip server configurations. The chip is fabricated on TSMC's 4nm process with 144 GB of
  HBM3E per package. As of mid-2026 Etched has raised more than 625 million dollars at a 5 billion dollar valuation but has
  not yet shipped Sohu to customers in volume, and there is no public Etched API or developer surface. This profile is company-and-product-only
  and intentionally has an empty apis list.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/etched.png
tags:
- AI Hardware
- ASIC
- Transformer
- Inference
- Accelerator
- Silicon
- Pre-Launch
- Datacenter
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/etched/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/etched-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/etched-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.etched.com
- type: ProductPage
  url: https://www.etched.com/announcing-etched
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.etched.com/careers
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.etched.com/blog
- type: Press
  url: https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/startup-etched-raises-us120m-to-bet-on-transformer-only-asic/
- type: Press
  url: https://www.startupresearcher.com/news/etched-raises-usd500-million-to-challenge-nvidia-with-ai-chip-sohu
- type: Press
  url: https://theaiworld.org/news/etcheds-500m-sohu-chip-takes-aim-at-nvidia
- type: TechnicalOverview
  url: https://awesomeagents.ai/hardware/etched-sohu/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/etched-ai
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/Etched
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com