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
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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