Anthropic Wants to Build Its Own AI Chips
The Claude maker is hiring a custom silicon team, joining the rush by AI firms to stop leaning entirely on other people's hardware.
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HBF Gives AI Chips Terabytes of Memory
Sandisk and SK hynix want to give AI chips half a terabyte of fast memory per stack, using flash instead of pricey HBM.
Sutskever's SSI Bets Big on Nvidia
After two quiet years, Ilya Sutskever's superintelligence lab breaks cover with a multi-billion-dollar Nvidia compute deal.
Etched's AI Chip Bet Hits $10.3B
Three Harvard dropouts built a chip for AI inference, and now investors are writing checks that value it at $10.3 billion.
AMD Bets $5 Billion on Anthropic
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and supply the chips to train and run Claude, deepening a chipmaker and lab alliance.
Nvidia's Vera CPU Chases a Bigger Market
Nvidia just shared benchmarks and details for Vera, its first CPU with a custom core, and the pitch isn't what you'd expect.
Microsoft Bets on AMD's Helios for Azure AI
Microsoft is committing to AMD's rack-scale Helios accelerator in volume, a fresh crack in Nvidia's grip on AI data centers.
Japan Builds a National AI Factory
Nvidia and Japan's new Noetra consortium are building a 140MW, 27,500-GPU AI factory to power state-backed robotics and industrial AI.
What's Buzzing This Week! (July 4-11, 2026)
Robots that imagine, a rethink of AI memory, faster CPUs, a $65M raise, and the biggest foreign IPO in US history.
SK hynix's Record $26.5B US IPO
The world's top maker of AI memory just pulled off the biggest foreign IPO in US history, and it's spending every dollar on more chips.