Anthropic is planning to develop its own AI chip and is in talks with Samsung for 2nm manufacturing.

According to TechInsights, as reported by The Information, Anthropic has initiated early work on a proprietary AI chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics. Sources revealed that Anthropic is considering using Samsung's 2-nanometer process node and advanced packaging services to reduce the physical distance between the processor and high-bandwidth memory, thus improving data transfer efficiency.

To advance this project, Anthropic recently hired Clive Chan, an early member of OpenAI's in-house chip team. Previously, OpenAI collaborated with Broadcom to design its first inference chip. Faced with soaring computational costs, leading large model developers are increasingly moving towards in-house hardware development.

Currently, the chip development is still in the early planning stage and has not yet entered detailed design and testing. In response to inquiries, Anthropic stated that Amazon's Trainium, Google's TPU, and NVIDIA's GPU remain core to the company's computational strategy. For Samsung, a successful collaboration would be a key breakthrough for Samsung's 2-nanometer foundry business to compete against TSMC.