OpenAI Jalapeño Outperforms Nvidia Rubin with Massive Software Gains in 5 Days

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-26

Analysis by SemiAnalysis reveals OpenAI's custom Jalapeño chip surpasses Nvidia's Vera Rubin in throughput and performance-per-watt, even without Prefill/Decode disaggregation or speculative decoding used by Rubin. This suggests a more balanced design less reliant on P/D disagg. Additionally, the 5-day gap between performance curves highlights OpenAI's rapid software iteration speed.

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