AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors

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1. 23 Jul 2026, 15:00 UTCPressTechCrunch — AIfirst

   AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors

   Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

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