{"id":1023218,"date":"2026-07-24T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023218"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:36:41","slug":"ai-chip-startup-etched-raises-300-million-at-10-3-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/ai-chip-startup-etched-raises-300-million-at-10-3-billion-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chip startup Etched raises $300 million at $10.3 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sequoia-backed Etched said on Thursday it raised $300 million in a Series C funding round that valued the AI chip company at $10.3 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Etched is among a \u200cgrowing number \u2060of \u2060startups seeking to challenge Nvidia&#8217;s dominance \u200bin AI chips by developing hardware for inference, \u200bthe process of running artificial intelligence models. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequoia-backed Etched said on Thursday it raised $300 million in a Series C funding round that valued the AI chip company at $10.3 billion. Etched is among a \u200cgrowing number \u2060of \u2060startups seeking to challenge Nvidia&#8217;s dominance \u200bin AI chips by developing hardware for inference, \u200bthe process of running artificial intelligence models. Here are some details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023247,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023218\/revisions\/1023247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}