Jalapeño Is The First AI Chip From OpenAI And Broadcom
It’s a spicy start for the AI company’s move into chip production.
OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled the design for Jalapeño, their first jointly-made chip. The pair of companies announced plans to collaborate on a making a custom "AI accelerator" in October 2025. In its blog post today, OpenAI called Jalapeño its "first Intelligence Processor: an accelerator architected around OpenAI's vision for the future of LLM inference." In other words, the processor is designed to run its large language models.
The AI company claims that so far, Jalapeño is offering "performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art" in chip technology. The blog post did hedge that final performance testing is still underway, and a more thorough technical report on the chip's performance specs will be released in the coming months. The next stage will be to see Jalapeño put to use in data centers, with the initial deployment slated...
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