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Micron, Anthropic signs supply, investment agreement

Leading American multinational semiconductor company, Micron Technology, Inc. has announced a strategic agreement with chip giant, Anthropic, for a memory and storage AI architecture design, supply arrangement, enterprise adoption of Claude across Micron, and a strategic investment in Anthropic’s Series H. 

Micron in press release posted on GlobeNewswire on Monday, said its chief executive, Sumit Sadana, and Anthropic co-founder, Tom Brown, signed the collaboration and supply. 

According to Reuters, Micron has already deployed Claude internally for coding and agentic use cases and that financial terms of the supply deal and Micron’s Series H investment were not disclosed. 

Reuters also noted Anthropic has signed recent compute agreements with CoreWeave, Broadcom and SpaceX. Announcing the deal, Micron and Anthropic said the collaboration spanned memory and storage AI architecture design, a supply agreement for data-centre products and enterprise adoption of Claude across Micron, and a strategic investment in Anthropic’s Series H funding round. 

“The AI revolution has permanently elevated the role of memory and storage solutions from the data center to the edge. “Our compute strategy depends on getting every layer of the stack right, and memory and storage are central to how efficiently we can train and serve Claude,” said Tom Brown, co-founder and chief compute officer, Anthropic,” said Sumit Sadana, executive vice president and chief business officer of Micron. 

The Micron release says the collaboration will analyse how memory and storage subsystems perform across AI workloads and interact across the full infrastructure stack, and it highlights Micron’s portfolio of HBM, DRAM and SSDs as relevant product families.

The release also frames the work as intended to drive improvements in performance, energy efficiency and what it calls “enhanced token economics” for Anthropic’s infrastructure. 

Reuters in its report confirmed the agreement, adding that Micron had already deployed Claude internally for coding and agentic workflows, and that the financial terms of both the supply agreement and Micron’s Series H investment were not disclosed. 

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