A lab explores custom silicon as buying compute becomes becoming compute

Claim

Anthropic is exploring custom silicon with Samsung's 2-nanometer process, while Micron broke ground on a $9.3 billion Hiroshima expansion and Hong Kong handled more than half of China's $239 billion in chip imports this year.

Reported metric: $9.3B / $239B

Reporting date: 2026-07-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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