# Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips.

*genai · news · 2026-05-21 · The Star*

## Key points

- Anthropic is in early talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft's in-house AI chips.
- Securing Anthropic as a customer would significantly validate Microsoft's custom chip ambitions.
- Maia 200, Microsoft's second-generation AI chip, uses older high-bandwidth memory than Nvidia's Vera Rubin.
- Maia 200 chips contain significant SRAM, which may speed up high-demand AI chatbot applications.

**Companies:** Microsoft, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Anthropic, Amazon, Alphabet
**Countries:** United States, Taiwan, India

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