What is Etched?

Etched is an AI chip company. According to co-founder Gavin Uberti, the company’s hardware offers an order of magnitude more concurrency at a given level of interactivity and runs at under half the voltage of any other chip.

• Jun 2026 - Gavin Uberti said Etched brought its silicon from arrival to running inference in 40 days, compared to another famous AI chip company that took 10 months.
• Jun 2026 - Gavin Uberti stated that every major investor in the valley passed immediately on investing in Etched.
• Jun 2026 - Jake Paul listed Etched among tier one names including Anduril, Cognition, SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
• Jun 2026 - Gavin Uberti argued that the decision is not between a gigawatt of GPU and a gigawatt of Etched, but 2 gigawatts total.