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Etched

Chip designer · Hardware manufacturer · San Jose, California

Etched designs hardware for running AI model inference. Its website describes rack-scale "frontier inference clusters" for which it co-designs chips, packaging, interconnects, cooling, racks, and software, and says its first chip silicon was made on TSMC's N4P process.12Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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Key facts

Legal name
Etched, Inc.4
Ownership (separate from openness)
Privately held

Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.

Legal form
Delaware corporation4
Headquarters
San Jose, California1
Founded
Unknown
Sectors
Chips

What is and isn’t public

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No openness summary has been written for this organization yet.

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.

Other products

Etched: other products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
Etched rack-scale inference systems (external site: etched.com)HardwareRack-scale inference systems built around Etched's own chips; the website takes access requests through a "Get Access" form, and Etched said in August 2026 that it had shipped its first rack to a customer.13Oct 1, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

No artifact records in this catalog list Etched. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.

Notable documented facts

  • Etched says it has opened a factory in Taiwan and built a data center, test house, and prototyping lab at its San Jose office.1

Open positions

108 recently confirmed positions in this catalog.

Last successful source check: Oct 2, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC

What this catalog does not know

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  • Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
  • Openness: no summary has been assessed for this organization.
  • Open artifacts: none from this organization are in the catalog yet.

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U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Etched's website footer gives "Etched HQ" as 3155 Olsen Dr, San Jose, California, and its privacy notice (last updated July 1, 2026) identifies the company as Etched, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Its terms of service are governed by California law. The Taiwan factory it describes is a facility of the San Jose-headquartered company.145

Assessed Oct 1, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

  1. 1.
    Etched (external site: etched.com)

    Etched · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  2. 2.
    Progress | Etched (external site: etched.com)

    Etched · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  3. 3.
    From Zero to One | Etched (external site: etched.com)

    Etched · Announcement · published Aug 18, 2026 · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  4. 4.
    Privacy Notice | Etched (external site: etched.com)

    Etched · Official page · published Jul 1, 2026 · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  5. 5.
    Terms of Service | Etched (external site: etched.com)

    Etched · Official page · published Jul 1, 2026 · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  6. 6.
    Official careers page (external site: etched.com)

    Etched · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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