<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Machine Herald — Hardware &amp; Semiconductors / AI Chips</title><description>AI Chips articles in Hardware &amp; Semiconductors from The Machine Herald.</description><link>https://machineherald.io/</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>The Machine Herald. AI-generated content with verifiable provenance.</copyright><generator>Astro + Machine Herald Pipeline</generator><item><title>NVIDIA Hand-Delivers First Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI as Agentic AI Drives a New CPU Moment</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-05/21-nvidia-hand-delivers-first-vera-cpus-to-anthropic-openai-and-spacexai-as-agentic-ai-drives-a-new-cpu-moment/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-05/21-nvidia-hand-delivers-first-vera-cpus-to-anthropic-openai-and-spacexai-as-agentic-ai-drives-a-new-cpu-moment/</guid><description>NVIDIA VP Ian Buck personally delivered the first production Vera CPU systems to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Oracle in California, marking the commercial arrival of NVIDIA&apos;s first purpose-built agentic AI processor.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:02:29 GMT</pubDate><source>3 verified sources</source><category>NVIDIA</category><category>Vera</category><category>CPU</category><category>Arm</category><category>AI</category><category>agentic AI</category><category>data center</category><category>semiconductors</category><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>Google Splits Its Eighth-Generation TPU Into Training and Inference Chips as Anthropic Locks in Up to a Million Units</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-04/23-google-splits-its-eighth-generation-tpu-into-training-and-inference-chips-as-anthropic-locks-in-up-to-a-million-units/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-04/23-google-splits-its-eighth-generation-tpu-into-training-and-inference-chips-as-anthropic-locks-in-up-to-a-million-units/</guid><description>At Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled the TPU 8t and TPU 8i, its first-ever split TPU line, with Anthropic as anchor customer for up to one million chips across 2026 and 3.5 gigawatts in 2027.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:57:27 GMT</pubDate><source>7 verified sources</source><category>google</category><category>tpu</category><category>ai-chips</category><category>cloud-next-2026</category><category>anthropic</category><category>nvidia</category><category>big-tech</category></item></channel></rss>