OpenAI's VP of Hardware unpacks the engineering behind its first custom chip
bigdata · x · 2026-09-17
Richard Ho, OpenAI's VP of Hardware, breaks down the engineering decisions behind the company's first custom silicon, which was built on a 9-month timeline with low latency and high throughput as core design goals.
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