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Etched Sohu

Chip AI Accelerator In development

The transformer-only ASIC bet: burn the architecture into silicon.

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Etched is betting that the transformer is permanent: Sohu hard-wires transformer inference and nothing else, claiming an 8-chip server could replace many H100s for LLM serving. The company raised $120M in 2024. No product has shipped or been independently benchmarked; all figures are company claims.

Specifications & key facts

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Overview

Designer Etched

Status In development — no shipping product

Approach Transformer-only ASIC (cannot run CNNs or other architectures)Vendor claim

Memory

Memory (planned) 144 GB HBM3EVendor claim

Compute

Throughput claim ~500,000 Llama-70B tokens/s per 8-chip server — company claim, not independently verifiedVendor claim

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Designed by

Etched

Manufactured by

TSMC

Transformer

Sources

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Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.