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Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD, Financials), the developer of Ryzen CPUs and Instinct AI accelerators, has made a multi-billion dollar deal with Anthropic that involves chips, infrastructure and a possible investment. Anthropic will begin deploying as much as 2 gigawatts of AMD’s MI450-series AI accelerators in the first half of 2027.The rollout will include AMD’s Helios rack-scale systems, which will feature MI455X graphics processors, EPYC Venice CPUs, Pensando networking and ROCm software. AMD also claimed it could spend up to $5 billion in Anthropic over time.KeyBanc analyst John Vinh estimates the whole roll-out may bring in about $27.2 billion in revenue for AMD. The transaction is more indication that AMD is becoming a credible alternative in the AI accelerator industry, he said.The businesses have committed to partner on engineering, with AMD anticipated to employ Anthropic’s Claude models to increase chip performance. Shares of AMD were up roughly 1.5% in early trading.The deal allows Anthropic to have broader access to computing resources and less reliance on a single hardware supplier. For AMD, the acquisition adds a high-profile customer and a chance to show its systems can compete at scale. Investors will now look for the speed of deployment and the ultimate revenue generated from the deal.