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Posted by jamdesk 1 day ago

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom(techcrunch.com)
Announcement: https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-...

https://decrypt.co/371971/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-first-cus...

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/tech/openai-broadcom-jalapeno...

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skyberrys 1 day ago||
The new chip sounds like it's vustom made to accelerate a few specific models they really need to run fast. The advantage is it's truly and ASIC, not a xPU. There are several new startups targeting EDA tooling automation, Chip Agents is the biggest one I can think of but their are smaller players too, Silimate is one I recall. These companies are focusing on building fast AI powered tools to speed up the tape out cycle.
kazinator 1 day ago||
There is a never ending torrent of money coming, so why not make custom chips.

Whoo ... party!

mdp2021 1 day ago|
Although, custom HW has to be the focus right now - simply because we are dealing with a technology (big NNs) that are not the best match with Von Neumann architectures.
qsxfthnkp2322 1 day ago||
aw shucks nvda has some spicy competition

Make sure you all use that fancy ñ

boarush 1 day ago||
They don't have true competition, what they lose out on is market share with hyperscalers, since OpenAI would have no plans to share inference hardware with any other company right now. Plus, I don't know how does NVIDIA's investment equation pans out long terms given OpenAI will be investing in more purpose built inference stack for the future.
ismailmaj 1 day ago||
they're still kings for training, though I've heard Anthropic is training now on JAX+TPU setup, so might not be a monopoly in that segment.
imglorp 23 hours ago||
Is broadcom really the best business partner? 100,000 VMware customers might say no.
fibonacci112358 1 day ago||
So this is where all the memory they bought is going to.
babelfish 1 day ago|
that's not really how it works
BobbyTables2 1 day ago||
Why the hell Broadcom of all companies?
philjohn 1 day ago|
Because they have the skills necessary to help bring custom designed ASICs to fruition. Google uses them for their TPU's, Meta uses them for their custom ASICs as well.
shevy-java 1 day ago|
So this mafia is driving up RAM prices. And now build their own overpriced hardware.

Either RAM prices go down, or that mafia must pay us all compensation money for this cartel build up. Why is the USA protecting this? How much does the orange man profit personally from helping drive up the prices here?

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