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  "id": 13083,
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/ai-chip-startup-etched-defies-skeptics-hits-10-3b-valuation-from-big-name-investors",
  "title": "AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors",
  "summary": "Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.",
  "authors": "Julie Bort",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-23T15:00:00.000Z",
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  "original_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/ai-chip-startup-etched-defies-skeptics-hits-10-3b-valuation-from-big-name-investors",
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