Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

Selby's VC firm, Copper Sky Capital, is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.

Etched, a new startup with a team of 400+ engineers, has announced its latest AI solution, the Frontier Inference Clusters. Etched Comes Out of Stealth To Unveil Its Frontier Inference Clusters, Achieves Successful A0 Tapeout & On-Track For $1B+ In AI Contracts What happens when 400+ Engineers from leading firms such as NVIDIA, Google, Broadcom, TSMC, SK Hynix, and more come together? Well, Etched happens. This is a new AI startup who are co-designing chips, racks, software, and advanced manufacturing methods for frontier models. The company promises best-in-class throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency for both prefill and decode workloads, […]

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The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.