A lab asks a memory maker to supply its own chip effort

Claim

Anthropic asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, startling SK's chairman, as Nvidia put $1 billion into Naver and unveiled a $500 billion Korean push spanning HBM4 and two-gigawatt data centers, and Samsung inked a $200 billion pact with Broadcom.

Reported metric: $500B / $200B

Reporting date: 2026-07-26 (not necessarily the event date)

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