# Etched

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/etched/  
**Website:** https://www.etched.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Etched Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Etched Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Tags

AI Hardware, ASIC, Transformer, Inference, Accelerator, Silicon, Pre-Launch, Data-Center

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/etched/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.