Etched

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
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Producing
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
- Data-Center
tags_raw:
- 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: '0.23'
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