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Anthropic plans to design custom chips to power Claude
Ars Technica Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Anthropic announced plans to design its own custom silicon to power its Claude AI models as tech giants race to scale up infrastructure.
Why it matters
Designing in-house hardware could lower the cost of running AI models and reduce the industry's heavy reliance on Nvidia's expensive graphics chips.
Latest brief · Aug 7, 2026