Chips
Aug 6, 2026
Anthropic Is Building an In-House Chip Design Team
Anthropic is assembling a dedicated team to design custom AI chips, aiming to co-develop hardware and models in tandem. The move signals the Claude-maker's ambitions to reduce dependence on third-party silicon and squeeze more performance from its infrastructure.
AI
Chips
Anthropic
Jul 22, 2026
AMD Commits $5B to Anthropic in AI Infrastructure Deal
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic and supplying next-generation Instinct MI450 GPUs via its new Helios rack-scale system. The deal signals AMD's aggressive push into AI infrastructure as Anthropic continues assembling a sprawling network of compute partners.
AI
Infrastructure
Chips
Jul 9, 2026
QuantumDiamonds Raises €15M for Quantum Chip Testing
German semiconductor testing startup QuantumDiamonds has closed a €15M equity round, bringing its total funding to €91M when combined with previously announced EU-backed state aid. The TUM spinout is scaling production of quantum sensing technology that helps chipmakers detect defects conventional systems can't catch.
Chips
Deep Tech
Funding
Jul 1, 2026
GPT-5.6 Exists, But You Can't Use It Yet
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is real, but US government restrictions are keeping it out of most hands for now. In parallel, AI inference chip startup Etched is emerging from stealth with $800M raised, a $1B+ order backlog, and first-try silicon success on TSMC 4nm.
AI inference
AI tools
Chips
Jun 29, 2026
Is Micron the Next Nvidia? Wall Street Is Betting on It
Wall Street investors are increasingly bullish on Micron as the next major AI hardware winner. With demand for high-bandwidth memory surging alongside AI infrastructure buildouts, analysts see the US memory maker as uniquely positioned to ride the next wave of the AI boom.
AI hardware
Chips
HBM