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Chris Zhu

EtchedCo-founder

Zhu co-founded Etched to build Sohu, a chip designed specifically for Transformer models rather than general-purpose AI workloads. The company's bet is that specializing the entire chip for one dominant architecture can make large-model inference much faster.

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Co-founder
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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LaunchThe team and investors behind Etched

Etched came out of stealth with frontier inference clusters, but the more revealing map is the network behind it: young founders, veteran chip operators, frontier-AI advisers, and a trading-heavy investor base.

June 30, 2026
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