OpenAI Confirms Jalapeño Chip, Co-Designed With Broadcom — SkimNews
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- OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho detailed the Jalapeño inference chip in a Q&A with Dr. Ian Cutress of More Than Moore, with OpenAI formally confirming the project in June 2026 after roughly a year of industry speculation.
- The Jalapeño chip was co-designed with Broadcom, and OpenAI used its own internal AI models as part of the chip design process, per the interview.
Why it matters: Custom inference silicon co-designed with Broadcom signals OpenAI is building proprietary hardware infrastructure for model serving, potentially shifting its compute supply chain relationships away from dependency on third-party GPU vendors.
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