Etched Completes $120M Series A Financing for Transformer ASIC Chip Sohu

TapTechNews on June 26, Etched announced the completion of a $120 million (TapTechNews note: currently about 873 million Chinese yuan) Series A financing, which will be used to develop and sell the world's first Transformer dedicated integrated circuit (ASIC) chip Sohu.

TapTechNews queried public information. Etched was founded by two Harvard dropouts, Gavin Uberti and Chris Zhu, and was established less than 2 years ago.

The biggest highlight of the Sohu chip is that the Transformer architecture is directly etched into the chip. Uberti said that Sohu is manufactured using TSMC's 4-nanometer process, and its reasoning performance is much better than that of GPUs and other general-purpose artificial intelligence chips, while consuming less energy.

In the Llama70B throughput, Sohu can process more than 500,000 tokens per second, allowing users to build products that GPUs cannot achieve.

Sohu can achieve functions such as real-time voice agent, millisecond-level processing of thousands of words of text, stronger code tree search, parallel comparison of hundreds of responses, multicast speculative decoding, and real-time generation of new content, providing the possibility for the operation of trillion-level parameter models in the future.

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