--- title: "UK plans to buy AI chips from British firms to stop them leaving for the US" url: https://daily.dev/posts/uk-plans-to-buy-ai-chips-from-british-firms-to-stop-them-leaving-for-the-us-wobcqq1rw source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-buy-ai-chips-british-companies-kendall type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-06-07T13:11:39.629Z updated: 2026-06-07T13:22:37.272Z tags: ["ai", "gpu"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # UK plans to buy AI chips from British firms to stop them leaving for the US **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The UK government plans to make 'strategic purchases' of AI chips directly from British semiconductor firms to prevent them from being acquired by foreign buyers or relocating abroad. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall will announce the initiative at London Tech Week, targeting a 5% global chip market share worth roughly £37 billion. The government has already committed £100 million through ARIA's compute programme, including a £50 million inference lab for UK startups. The move follows a string of high-profile losses — SoftBank's acquisition of Graphcore, Qualcomm's purchase of Alphawave IP, and Arm's New York listing — and aims to create guaranteed domestic demand by making the government a customer rather than just a regulator. Concerns about over-reliance on US firms like Palantir, Microsoft, and AWS in public procurement are also driving the push for domestic providers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-government-will-buy-tech-to-boost-ai-sector-in-130m-growth-push-4fzus5e59) · Ars Technica · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [UK tech chief wants pension funds to back AI startups](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-tech-chief-wants-pension-funds-to-back-ai-startups-apln3wvzj) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AMD, Nebius and Starmer pour billions into UK AI at LTW](https://daily.dev/posts/amd-nebius-and-starmer-pour-billions-into-uk-ai-at-ltw-vktgmfpdt) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [UK commits £1.3bn to AI hardware, skills, and justice reform](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-commits-1-3bn-to-ai-hardware-skills-and-justice-reform-qr2znn6l8) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI takes the throne](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-takes-the-throne-zwkbidngs) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#gpu](https://daily.dev/tags/gpu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-plans-to-buy-ai-chips-from-british-firms-to-stop-them-leaving-for-the-us-wobcqq1rw)