Anthropic Confirms Plans to Build an In-House Chip Design Team
Anthropic has confirmed it is hiring a custom silicon team to design its own chips for running Claude models, while continuing to use hardware from other vendors.
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Anthropic has confirmed it is building an in-house custom silicon team to design chips for running its Claude models, the company told Business Insider and TechCrunch after job listings appeared on its careers page for a silicon engineer and a technical program manager for silicon.
- Anthropic confirmed plans for an in-house custom silicon team after job listings for a silicon engineer and a technical program manager appeared on its jobs board
- A company spokesperson said Anthropic will take a multi-chip approach, using its own designs alongside third-party hardware
- The Information had previously reported Anthropic was considering Samsung as a manufacturing partner
A company spokesperson clarified that Anthropic will maintain a “multi-chip approach,” continuing to use hardware from third-party vendors alongside its own designs as it scales up. The announcement confirms a rumor reported earlier by The Information, which said Anthropic was considering Samsung as a manufacturing partner.
Anthropic is not the first AI lab on this path. OpenAI recently announced a custom inference chip called Jalpeño, developed with Broadcom. Google and Meta have both designed and deployed their own silicon, and Mistral is reportedly exploring the same. Anthropic says its hardware and model teams will co-design chips and models side by side - a form of vertical integration the company has previously pursued only with external partners. Because key team members are still being hired, any concrete benefits remain some time away.
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