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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.

TechCrunch AI· Julie Bort·Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTC
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