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EtchedEtched designs Sohu, a transformer-only ASIC chip built to accelerate AI inference workloads more efficiently than general-purpose GPUs like Nvidia's.
6 Pulse stories
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SoftBankJapanese multinational holding company and investment conglomerate that owns major stakes in telecom, semiconductor design (Arm), and AI infrastructure/data centers, and runs the Vision Fund venture investment arm.
4 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$800M
EtchedSoftBank
Last Valuation
$10.3B
EtchedSoftBank
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2022
Founded
1981
San Jose, California
HQ
Tokyo, Japan
Private
Status
Public (9984.T)
Etched investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen HorowitzJane StreetSK HynixStripesPeter Thiel/Thiel CapitalPrimary Venture PartnersPositive Sum Ventures
SoftBank investors
No investors on record.
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