Anthropic Confirms Custom Chip Team for Claude, Explores Samsung Foundry Deal

Anthropic has confirmed that it is building an internal chip team to develop proprietary AI chips for its Claude models, the company's first public acknowledgment of its self-designed chip plans. The company said the team will work on hardware-model co-design to enable Claude to run faster and operate more efficiently when handling ultra-large-scale customer demand. Anthropic will continue its multi-chip strategy, with hardware from Amazon Web Services, Google, Nvidia and AMD serving as core computing power support. The company has also approached Samsung Electronics to discuss potential foundry manufacturing cooperation.

Recent job postings show that Anthropic is recruiting chip design and verification engineers for its "custom silicon chip team," with salaries ranging from $320,000 to $485,000. The roles require direct experience in chip tape-out and shipping, as well as the ability to independently make major technical decisions. Amid high AI computing costs, several leading companies have begun to pursue in-house chip development: OpenAI is working with Broadcom on proprietary chips, and Meta plans to put its next-generation AI chips into mass production, intensifying competition for hardware self-sufficiency.