Etched @ UIUC

​Come meet the Etched team at UIUC!

​Vibhakar Vemulapati (BS ’17, MS ’19 ECE) is returning to campus to talk about the challenges of designing multi-chip systems for AI workloads—drawing on his experience building verification systems at Apple, Lightmatter, and now Etched.

​The Etched team will also brief us on Sohu, the world’s first transformer inference ASIC, and share what it takes to build frontier-class firmware and silicon for cutting-edge AI systems.

​Etched is building a transformer-specific AI chip that's >10x faster than NVIDIA GPUs. Founded by Harvard dropouts turned Thiel Fellows, Etched has raised hundreds of millions from leading investors, including Peter Thiel, Jane Street, Two Sigma, and Primary Ventures. Engineering is led by Mark Ross (ex-CTO of Cypress Semiconductor [acq. 9.4B]);  Brian Loiler (ex-NVIDA for 23 years, built the HGX/DGX servers, responsible for >80% of NVIDIA’s revenue); and David Munday (built the TPU v1-v5 software/firmware teams).

​Please RSVP to join us - space is limited! Food will be served.


Thank you to buildillinois for hosting us!