New Delhi, June 24 -- OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom Intelligence Processor designed from scratch for large language model inference. The chip was delivered to OpenAI's leadership after a nine-month design-to-tape-out cycle and will be deployed at a gigawatt scale with data centre partners across multiple generations starting by the end of 2026.

According to a press release by Broadcom, early lab tests show Jalapeno running ML workloads at production target frequency and power, with performance per watt substantially better than the current state-of-the-art.

Broadcom said Jalapeno marks the start of a multi-generation compute platform built with OpenAI. "Our collaboration with OpenAI represents a funda...