OpenAI's Jalapeño chip isn't AI-made: 100+ ex-Google TPU engineers and Broadcom did the heavy lifting
ai · x · 2026-09-18
Industry voices push back on claims that AI can design a chip on its own: OpenAI's Jalapeño is excellent, but it hired 100+ people including ex-Google TPU design engineers, co-designed the chip with Broadcom, benefits from faster HBM4 (vs Blackwell's HBM3E), and made aggressive architectural choices like dropping a complex scheduler — strong on paper but disadvantaged in many workloads.
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