Anthropic is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, according to Reuters, moving ahead with a plan first reported in April as the startup responds to a shortage of processors needed to run and develop more advanced AI systems.

Apple's attempt to use China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) as leverage against Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix has backfired. The two Korean chipmakers now hold stronger, not weaker, negotiating power over DRAM supply, according to South Korean and Chinese trade press.

SpaceX's first quarterly earnings release has offered fresh evidence that Starlink's expansion is moving beyond subscriber growth and into a more hardware-intensive phase, strengthening expectations that next-generation satellite networks and direct-to-device services will raise demand for higher-power radio-frequency components.