Posted by jamdesk 1 day ago
https://decrypt.co/371971/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-first-cus...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/tech/openai-broadcom-jalapeno...
Edit: contextually,
> Jalapeño is specifically designed for inference
(at the moment), I think that if I were Nvidia, I would be a bit terrified and I imagine the stock to not be doing super great as I can just imagine everyone online might start talking about it for better or for worse.
I am a bit impressed by OpenAI but is this what can be classified as a plan for OAI to salvage itself and all the commitments it has made nearing a 1.4 Trillion dollars from my memory and this article[0] is from 2025
But could OpenAI simply walk out of its commitments when necessary (for example to Nvidia) if this chip works out or what exactly might happen in the future as these commitments are asked to be paid for, its still smart for OAI to diversify with this chip and to have more deeper ways of revenue than just being a simple middleman but I imagine that Nvidia and others have also invested in OpenAI and they must not be happy with this change.
The thing with AI deals are that they have become so complicated that it is hard for me to find the first order impact of things, let alone second or third order impacts and financial accountability seems to be impacted quite heavily because of all of it and there is some sense that it is done so intentionally.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/sam-altman-says-openai-has...
An interesting example of how the current market dynamics incentivize low cost and therefore power efficiency and therefore lowering resource use.
It's not just good drivers, which is what moats them for games and ML. It's a multi-decade work of making chips that are nice to program for and software infrastructure around them.
Apple and Google have excelent chips, yet they needed to invest a lot in long-tail software projects to make those chips do actual premium work. Still not state of the art for serving LLMs (although Google is strong in that, mostly because it piggybacked on previous chip-related software work for phones and so on).
If you write your tools for CUDA, you’re going to prefer hardware the runs CUSA.
How is there anything more to it than this?
What will people use to write for Jalapeño matters.
Nvidia has multi-decade heritage. Apple spent almost a decade in MLX. Snapdragon failed partly here. OpenAI announced nothing regarding to that, so this big moat that multiple companies have (nvidia the most prominent) is nil for them.
AI is cooked bro. Broadcom is the death sentence of anything.