Broadcom is working on a processor called Jalapeño that is optimized for artificial intelligence inferences. OpenAI supports Broadcom in this. The goal is shorter latency and lower energy consumption. Jalapeño is an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), meaning it consists of circuits specifically tailored to OpenAI’s inference software. The device is not intended for training large language models.
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OpenAI announced the project on Wednesday. The aim is probably to stimulate stock market imagination before OpenAI’s IPO: The wordy announcement contains no concrete data or information about the processor architecture.
Jalapeño was developed from scratch in nine months, according to the release. Early internal tests are said to have shown that the new computer chip will perform more inference per watt than semiconductors currently available for this purpose. The two companies want to work together in the long term, as they are terminating several generations of jalapeños an.
The first deliveries of the first generation of Jalapeño are planned for the end of the year. “We will begin enabling the construction of gigawatt data centers with Microsoft and other partners in 2026,” announced Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. Microsoft is the largest shareholder in the operating OpenAI arm.
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