Etched is enabling transformer supercomputers.
Etched is enabling transformer supercomputers.
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Etched raises $120M in challenge to Nvidia in AI with transformer chips

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Etched announced that it has raised $120 million in a challenge to Nvidia in designing AI chips.

Etched is designing a new chip dubbed Sohu that handle a critical part of AI processing: transform. By burning the transformer architecture into its chips, the company said it is creating the world’s most powerful servers for transformer inference. Etched says it is the fastest transformer chip of all time.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.