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  • SK hynix commits $39 billion to two new fabs as AI memory demand reshapes its roadmap

    SK hynix's board has approved 54 trillion won (about $39 billion) to build two new memory fabrication plants, the company announced on August 7, 2026, turning the first two arms of a much larger investment plan into funded construction schedules. The larger project, Y2, is the second fab at the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster. At 35.2 trillion won it is a DRAM plant of roughly 1.13 million square meters, with ground breaking set for July 2027 and its first cleanroom opening in June 2029 to produce

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  • Anthropic assembles in-house chip design team for Claude

    Anthropic assembles in-house chip design team for Claude Anthropic confirmed on August 5 that it is building an internal team to design custom silicon for its Claude AI models, joining a growing list of AI labs that have concluded off-the-shelf chips are no longer sufficient for the scale they need. The company is recruiting engineers with chip design experience for what it calls a "custom silicon team," according to a job listing. The group will co-design hardware and AI models in tandem, aim

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