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Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for chips
Original: Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chips, Reuters reports
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to buy Broadcom chips, according to a Reuters report. The financing deal deepens ties between the AI developer and the semiconductor supplier as Anthropic scales up the custom hardware behind its models. It highlights how chipmakers are increasingly bankrolling their biggest AI customers, extending the wave of massive vendor-financed deals reshaping the AI infrastructure market.
Why now: A record-scale vendor financing deal in the AI chip race is new and notable.
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