Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups like Etched through Arizona connections

TechCrunch | 03.07.2026 04:57
Nvidia competitor Etched announced this week that TSMC had manufactured its first chip earlier this year. While the four-year-old startup valued at $5 billion is getting ready to ship systems powered by that chip to customers later this summer, scaling production may prove challenging. Like other chip designers, Etched must compete for limited capacity at TSMC’s Taiwan factories.