Anthropic joins AI giants building in-house chips as demand outpaces supply

Anthropic just confirmed today that it has begun assembling its own dedicated team to design custom chips for its AI, Claude.

Until now, the company relied entirely on chips made by other tech giants, but skyrocketing demand means they need their own hardware to keep things running fast and smooth.

A job listing turns months of rumors into a staffed program

The news came via an official statement to Business Insider, where they also revealed a new opening for a lead silicon engineer. According to Business Insider, an Anthropic spokesperson said the company would co-design its hardware and its models so that Claude runs “faster and more efficiently,” in the spokesperson’s words, “at the scale our customers need.”

Interestingly, the job description is quite strict. Apparently, Anthropic is looking for engineers across front-end design, pre-silicon verification, physical design, analog and mixed-signal work, and packaging, who can work within a salary band of $320,000 to $485,000. 

According to the listing, candidates must show “direct personal contribution” to finished, shipped semiconductor designs, and be ready to make “consequential calls without a large organization behind them.”

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