Anthropic is reportedly holding early-stage talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI chip of its own design, with Samsung's 2nm process and advanced packaging under consideration.
July 2, 2026 · Anthropic
Anthropic Explores Its Own AI Chip — In Talks With Samsung
The AI developer has begun early work on a custom chip and is in preliminary discussions with Samsung Foundry to build it on a cutting-edge 2nm process. The project remains at a very early stage — and could still be scrapped.
2nm
Samsung Foundry's cutting-edge process node in the talks
74%
NVIDIA's estimated share of the AI chip market
Early
Role, performance & timeline all still undecided
Who leads the AI chip market
Estimated market share — NVIDIA still dominant as rivals build in-house silicon
In-house chip efforts by AI firms aim to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and stabilize supply amid GPU shortages and high costs.
How the AI developers stack up on silicon
Anthropic
Exploring custom AI chip (early stage)
In talks with Samsung · 2nm
OpenAI
Unveiled inference chip "Jalapeno"
Co-developed w/ Broadcom
Google / Amazon
Operating in-house AI silicon
In-house design
NVIDIA
Leads the AI chip market
~74% share
Still undecided
A pre-release report — no actual chip, and no evaluations exist yet.
Chip's specific role
Performance level
Server integration
Release timeline
Whether it ships at all
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