— We believe [this] to be the fastest ASIC development cycle ever achieved in high-performance advanced semiconductors, OpenAI says.
The chip is designed specifically for OpenAI’s needs on current and upcoming language models, and to combine the power of current AI accelerators with the shorter latency of «specialized systems,» like Cerebras’ hardware.
— The world is moving to a compute-powered economy, says Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI. — Jalapeño is part of our long-term full-stack infrastructure strategy to make compute more abundant.
The new silicon will be deployed at gigawatt-scale data centers just as fast as it was made, starting with Microsoft «and other partners» already in 2026, Broadcom says. It is only the first design in what the companies expect to be generations of products.
Jalapeño is already running LLM workloads in the lab, delivering «substantially better» performance per watt than «the current state-of-the-art,» OpenAI says.
Read more: OpenAI’s presentation, CNBC, CNN, Reuters, and TechCrunch.