Anthropic AI Hires Top Apple Chip Architect, Signals Major Push Into Edge Hardware
CUPERTINO, CA — Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup, has quietly poached a senior Apple silicon architect to lead a new "edge intelligence" division. The hire signals Anthropic is building ultra-efficient chips designed to run their Claude models locally on smartphones and IoT devices, bypassing the cloud entirely.
A single leaked internal memo warns this move could crush AWS and Google Cloud's AI hardware profits by 40 percent over three years, as inference costs shift from remote servers to everyday devices. The first prototype is expected to target Chinese supply chains for mass production, circumventing US export controls.