# Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude > Source: > Published: 2026-08-06 20:03:44+00:00 Anthropic is hiring a “custom silicon team” to design chips on which to run its models, the company has revealed. Yesterday, 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/). The 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. This 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. Anthropic 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.