> Etched, a startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, also thinks specialization is the best approach to building AI chips, developing Sohu, an application-spe

> Etched, a startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, also thinks specialization is the best approach to building AI chips, developing Sohu, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that runs just one type of AI — transformers — very, very well. I thought the cryptocurrency craze taught us that ASICs get annihilated by Nvidia GPUs when benchmarking equivalent-value systems. Guess not.