AITom's Hardwareabout 2 hours ago
OpenAI's Jalapeno ASIC Stays Internal for Now
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OpenAI's custom Jalapeno inference ASIC is deployed internally, but Head of Hardware Richard Ho told Tom's Hardware the chip could be used by others. Benchmarks at Hot Chips 2026 compared it to Nvidia's Blackwell, running GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2.5. Ho said OpenAI's own compute demand will absorb supply for a long time.
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