# Anthropic Builds In-House Chip Team to Cut Claude's Reliance on Nvidia

*2026-08-09 06:02 UTC · AI · 1 min read*

> Anthropic is assembling an internal chip design team to co-design custom silicon for Claude, aiming to cut inference costs and reduce its dependence on Nvidia GPUs.

Anthropic confirmed this week it is assembling an in-house chip design team to build custom silicon for its Claude AI models, following a software-hardware co-design strategy in which the chips and the models are developed together.

The company called the move "the latest step" in a multi-chip approach that will keep it running on a diversified hardware stack rather than depending solely on Nvidia GPUs. Samsung has been reported as a manufacturing partner for the new inference accelerators. Anthropic is hiring engineers who have "shipped silicon" before, offering salaries between $320,000 and $485,000, and recently brought on Clive Chan, OpenAI's former custom chip program lead, who left to join the effort in June.

The push reflects the scale of Anthropic's business: the company now serves billions of tokens daily on a roughly $30 billion revenue run-rate, and custom-designed chips could sharply cut the cost of running Claude at that volume.

## Sources

- [tomshardware.com](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/anthropic-to-build-its-own-co-designed-custom-ai-accelerator-for-inferencing-workloads-samsung-reported-to-be-partnering-with-the-claude-ai-maker-for-manufacturing)
- [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/08/06/anthropic-enters-the-ai-chip-race-with-in-house-chip-team/)

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