Summary
Etched’s Series C was led by Sequoia, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, SK Hynix and Jane Street. The company says it has manufactured its chips, is testing complete systems with customers and has booked $1 billion in orders.
Why it matters
The round shows investors continuing to fund specialised inference architectures as serving models becomes a larger constraint than training them.
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