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Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for chip leases
Original: Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42B to lease its chips, filing says
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic as much as $42 billion so the AI startup can lease Broadcom's custom chips, according to a regulatory filing. The deal deepens the financial ties between chipmakers and AI developers, with vendors increasingly financing customers' hardware purchases to lock in demand for their semiconductor capacity.
Why now: The enormous scale of vendor financing in the AI chip race is renewing debate about circular deals and risk in the sector.
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