AI Chips
Etched Raised $700m at $21B, Led By Its Only Named Customer
A valuation that roughly doubled in 26 days, on one shipped rack — delivered to the firm that led the round.
Aug 19, 2026

Artificial intelligence, professionally covered
A valuation that roughly doubled in 26 days, on one shipped rack — delivered to the firm that led the round.
Aug 19, 2026

Sequoia led a $300 million Series C into an inference-only chip company that every major investor turned down in 2023 — and SK hynix, the world's leading AI-memory maker, came along.
Jul 24, 2026

The transformer-chip maker is negotiating two concurrent rounds — one near $20 billion, another near $10 billion — that would quadruple the $5 billion valuation it held just months ago, though neither has closed.
Jul 19, 2026
