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title: "Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-confirmed-it-is-designing-custom-chips-for-claude-it-wants-engineers-who-have-shipped-si-arytp8qls
source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-in-house-chip-team-custom-silicon-claude
type: article
source: "The Next Web"
published: 2026-08-05T20:23:01.961Z
updated: 2026-08-05T20:59:25.922Z
tags: ["hardware", "gpu", "claude", "anthropic"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 2
comments: 3
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# Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

**[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Anthropic has officially confirmed it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, marking the first public acknowledgment of the effort. A job listing seeks engineers who have 'shipped silicon,' with salaries ranging from $320K to $485K. The company will maintain a multi-chip approach using AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD hardware while adding its own custom silicon as a fifth option. This follows earlier signals including Reuters reporting on chip exploration, talks with Samsung as a manufacturing partner, and the hire of Clive Chan from OpenAI's chip program. Anthropic joins OpenAI (Jalapeño chip with Broadcom), Meta (Iris chip), and Mistral in the race to develop proprietary AI silicon, with custom chip development estimated to cost around $500 million.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@taiwofrancis** · 0 upvotes

> Every major AI lab is becoming a chip company

**@paoloap** · 0 upvotes

> $500M and a shipped-silicon hiring bar buys bargaining room as much as chips, a fifth option on the table changes every GPU contract you sign. inference economics is what pushes labs into fabs.

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