OpenAI has unveiled its first custom artificial intelligence chip, designed in conjunction with Broadcom, to speed up its development of its infrastructure. The chip, called Jalapeño, is designed to perform a specific AI task known as inference, during which data is crunched in order to answer a user’s query to a chatbot like ChatGPT.
Custom Chip Development
The Jalapeño processor is designed to work speedily and efficiently with the large language models (LLMs) that power many AI applications, according to OpenAI hardware chief Richard Ho. The company plans to deploy Jalapeño by the end of this year, and it is the first step in a multi-generation chip development plan.
Canadian electronics manufacturer Celestica will build the server systems, which, like the chips, will be used only by OpenAI. The San Francisco company said it has samples of the chip running in its labs and they were operating at the target power and performance with the company’s GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark AI model.
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