OpenAI Confirms Jalapeño Chip Co-Designed With Broadcom — SkimNews
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- OpenAI confirmed in June 2026 its Jalapeño inference chip, a project the industry had assumed was underway for roughly a year before the official acknowledgment.
- OpenAI co-designed the Jalapeño chip with Broadcom and used internal OpenAI models as part of the chip design process, according to VP of Hardware Richard Ho.
Why it matters: OpenAI publicly confirming its own inference silicon — co-developed with Broadcom and designed partly by its own AI models — signals vertical integration into the hardware stack that has until now been dominated by NVIDIA, reducing OpenAI's dependence on third-party GPUs for running its models at scale.
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