Etched emerged from stealth with its Sohu inference chip, over $1 billion in customer contracts, and plans to ship its first racks this summer at a $5B

Etched has raised $800M and locked in $1B in sales contracts for its Sohu transformer chip, which it claims can outperform 160 Nvidia H100 GPUs.

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

Inference chip startup Etched launches with $800M in funding - SiliconANGLE