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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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flyinglizard 1 day ago|
I call BS. It’s probably a white label around existing Broadcom IP, impossible to go from zero to this kind of chip in nine months. I doubt OpenAI had any significant contribution.
zerohp 1 day ago|
That’s exactly what this is.

9 months to production is completely impossible anyway.

9 months from design to early samples is probably impossible given than TSMC takes 3 months after tape out to produce them. Then it’s up to the customer to qualify and revise for production. TSMC doesn’t do that.

There’s no AI that makes this happen in 9 months.

Mistletoe 1 day ago||
The similarities between the AI world and the crypto world are so much closer than any AI fanboy would ever admit.
samrus 1 day ago||
This is why ram prices are fucked. Cause altman doesnt give a shit about normal people as long as openAI suceeds
Africa-Ai 1 day ago||
Wow thats sounds tempting to use open ai newest chips
nullbio 1 day ago||
Big tech AI labs will develop LLM accelerators and hardware LLMs that increase frontier model output to tens of thousands-hundreds of thousands of TPS.

These chips will be used internally for their own business goals, giving them the capability to iterate at such an insane pace they will be able to clone every software product and software company on Earth. Meanwhile they'll trickle out 100-300 tps access to the rest of subscription users to drain them of their cash and keep the beast fed with fresh training data.

How can any individual company building a product, with access to 100-300 TPS behind-frontier security-gated, censored and capability gated models expect to compete with a company like Anthropic or OpenAI with frontier, unrestricted, unlocked models that can produce 100-1000x the output? 3-5 of their employees working to clone your 500 staff business will likely be easy pickings for them.

This should concern everyone.

The only reason they aren't 100% in on the strategy of replacing everyone is because they need us for training material and they needed the bootstrap. But the bootstrap problem is already gone, and they don't need to give us fair access to keep training data rolling.

jerojero 2 days ago|
One thing I don't like about California based companies is how cringe the names always are.

"Jalapeño" is such a bad name, having an "ñ" already makes it difficult and annoying to deal with in so many little ways. Good luck with that.

But also, theres the sort of "yes lets use Mexican related things because we're California" thought that I just really hate. I don't know, its like corporate Memphis to me. You see a product like this, you know it's an uppity califonia based firm that came up with it.

thewebguyd 2 days ago||
No worse, I suppose, than, the obsession with Lord of the Rings that the authoritarian surveillance companies have. Palantir, Anduril. Then we have the not defense/surveillance ones: Mithril, Valar, Narya, Erebor
skeledrew 2 days ago||
What kinds of names would you suggest?
thewebguyd 2 days ago||
None, probably. Just saying Jalapeño is no worse than any other non-descriptive company name. Although at least Palantir and Anduril are aptly named for what they do. The VC firms less so.
utopiah 2 days ago|||
Strawberry was too complicated as a codename.
CrzyLngPwd 1 day ago||
Too many Rs.
smallmancontrov 1 day ago||
Too many? But there are only two Rs in strawberry, how can that be too many?
CrzyLngPwd 1 day ago||
You are correct. I don't know why I thought there were 5 Rs in strawberry, and now I look properly I can count them correctly, there are indeed 6 Rs in strawberry.

I am sorry for initially giving an incorrect answer.

anthk 1 day ago|||
Don't worry, in Europe it's the same, but for insurances/lawyer stuff. Tons of companies have names based on Latin words such as Civitas/Insalus/Legalia/Legalitas or whatever which looks tacky/rancid/old fashioned kilometers away.
qsxfthnkp2322 2 days ago||
Jalapeño

Jalapeño

Jalapeño

Really has a… ring to it