What Etched does
Etched designs AI inference hardware, which it describes as frontier inference clusters, built by co-designing chips, racks, software and manufacturing methods. It is aimed at AI companies, cloud providers and hyperscalers that serve frontier models, including very large mixture-of-experts models, long-context and agentic workloads, across both prefill and decode. The site names two main technologies: Low Voltage Inference, in which chip math blocks run at under half the voltage of most AI chips for high-throughput work, and Cluster Scale Memory, a shared HBM and SRAM hybrid memory pool across the scale-up domain for low-latency work. Its first rack-scale product is being validated with customers. The site lists no public pricing.
How Etched compares with its closest alternatives
None of the 5 closest alternatives has a free plan, and neither does Etched. 1 of the 5 offers an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Etched. Etched offers hardware. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer hardware. Etched was founded in 2022; the alternatives were founded between 2016 and 2022, 4 of them earlier. Etched is based in Cupertino, United States; 1 of its 5 alternatives is in the United States too, and the others in South Korea, Canada and China.