Cassandra Unchained(@michaeljburry):This is serious competition for NVDA. The startup says it took just 44 days after getting its test chips back from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to have them up and running inference workloads—the computing processes that allow AI models to respond to user queries—a process that usually takes six months or more. When Etched needed help designing servers and racks to integrate its chips into one big system, the company in 2024 recruited Brian Loiler, a top systems engineer who spent nearly 23 years at Nvidia. Loiler has since recruited to Etched about a dozen engineers from Nvidia who, in some cases, turned down attractive counteroffers, he said.

2026.08.18 18:05

This is serious competition for NVDA. The startup says it took just 44 days after getting its test chips back from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to have them up and running inference workloads—the computing processes that allow AI models to respond to user queries—a process that usually takes six months or more. When Etched needed help designing servers and racks to integrate its chips into one big system, the company in 2024 recruited Brian Loiler, a top systems engineer who spent nearly 23 years at Nvidia. Loiler has since recruited to Etched about a dozen engineers from Nvidia who, in some cases, turned down attractive counteroffers, he said.