Etched The company announced the completion of a US$120 million (currently approximately RMB 873 million) Series A financing.Will be used to develop and sell the world's first Transformer application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip Sohu.
According to public information, Etched was founded by two Harvard dropouts, Gavin Uberti and Chris Zhu, and was established less than two 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 GPU and other general-purpose artificial intelligence chips, while also consuming less energy.
At Llama 70B throughput, Sohu can process over 500,000 tokens per second, allowing users to build products that are impossible with GPUs.
Sohu is capable of real-time voice agents, millisecond-level processing of thousands of words of text, more powerful code tree searches, parallel comparison of hundreds of responses, multicast speculative decoding, and real-time generation of new content, making it possible to run trillion-level parameter models in the future.