{"slug": "anthropic-will-design-its-own-hardware-to-power-claude", "title": "Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude", "summary": "Anthropic confirmed it is designing its own custom silicon to power its Claude models, hiring a 'custom silicon team' including a senior engineer with semiconductor experience. The company will maintain a 'multi-chip approach,' using hardware from other vendors alongside its own designs as it scales. Anthropic follows rivals OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Mistral in developing in-house AI chips.", "body_md": "Anthropic is hiring a “custom silicon team” to design chips on which to run its models, the company has revealed.\n\nYesterday, Business Insider [noticed](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-in-house-silicon-chip-team-claude-2026-8) a job listing for a senior engineer with experience shipping semiconductor designs. (You can see listings for a [silicon engineer](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5286348008) and a [technical program manager, silicon](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5380377008) on Anthropic’s job board right now.) A spokesperson for Anthropic then confirmed the plans to both Business Insider and [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/anthropic-is-hiring-an-ai-chip-design-team/).\n\nThe spokesperson clarified that Anthropic will still take a “multi-chip approach,” with plans to use hardware from other companies alongside its own designs as it continues to scale up.\n\nThis is confirmation of a rumor that has been circulating for a little bit; The Information previously [reported](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-samsung-manufacture-custom-ai-chip) that Anthropic was considering working with Samsung as a hardware manufacturing partner.\n\nAnthropic is not alone in walking this path. Its competitor, OpenAI, recently announced a new custom chip [called Jalapeño](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/openai-and-broadcom-announce-chip-designed-for-llm-inference-at-scale/) designed for large language model inference in data centers. OpenAI partnered with Broadcom to develop the chip. Google has been running its models on its own hardware for a while; Meta has also designed and deployed its own chips, and Mistral is reportedly looking into doing the same.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-will-design-its-own-hardware-to-power-claude", "canonical_source": "https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropic-confirms-plans-to-build-an-in-house-silicon-team/", "published_at": "2026-08-06 20:03:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 13:27:12.926837+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-chips", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "Business Insider", "TechCrunch", "The Information", "Samsung", "OpenAI", "Broadcom"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-will-design-its-own-hardware-to-power-claude", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-will-design-its-own-hardware-to-power-claude.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-will-design-its-own-hardware-to-power-claude.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-will-design-its-own-hardware-to-power-claude.jsonld"}}