A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-source models (SemiAnalysis)

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OpenAI’s Broadcom-built Jalapeño ASIC reportedly outperformed major AI chips on open-source models, signaling a serious challenge to Nvidia’s dominance.

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<a href="https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260825/i31.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260825/p31#a260825p31" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/">SemiAnalysis</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia">A detailed look at Jalape&ntilde;o, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-source models</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenAI's self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalape&ntilde;o's TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets</p>