Report: Anthropic taps Broadcom, Samsung for 2nm custom AI chip
Anthropic is reportedly pursuing a custom AI accelerator designed by Broadcom and manufactured by Samsung's foundry on its SF2 2nm process, with an initial run said to be around 200,000 units. Rumored specs include roughly 4,000 TOPS INT8, about 1,300W TDP and 192GB of HBM3E (possibly 288GB), but Anthropic, Samsung and Broadcom have not publicly confirmed the arrangement or any of those figures. Anthropic has previously confirmed an internal chip team designing custom silicon for Claude, while saying its infrastructure will keep using AWS Trainium, Google TPU and NVIDIA GPUs, and has announced expanded Google and Broadcom partnerships for multi-gigawatt TPU capacity starting in 2027.
If accurate, it shows a leading model lab pushing further into its own silicon, though the reported initial volumes are small and its multi-cloud, multi-chip sourcing would remain unchanged for now.