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A ripe jalapeño pepper on a neutral background, a direct nod to the name of OpenAI's first chip.
Hardware Jun 23, 2026 · 3 min

Jalapeño: OpenAI's first chip goes straight for inference (and NVIDIA)

OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom chip co-designed with Broadcom. It is not for training: it is an LLM inference accelerator promising ~50% lower cost, built in 9 months, aimed squarely at NVIDIA's dominance.

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