OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Cracked Nine Months. Here's the Real Story.
TL;DR
- OpenAI and Broadcom pushed Jalapeño from empty whiteboard to manufacturing tape-out in nine months. The fastest high-performance ASIC cycle anyone has publicly claimed. - It's inference-only. No training. Engineering samples already executing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark workloads. - Gigawatt-scale data centers coming online with Microsoft by end