OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, First Custom Intelligence Processor
OpenAI and Broadcom revealed Jalapeño, OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor, on June 24, 2026, built in nine months with deployment planned by year-end.
OpenAI and Broadcom Announce Jalapeño Intelligence Processor
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first Intelligence Processor, on June 24, 2026. Early testing shows Jalapeño will deliver performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art.
The chip was developed from initial design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months. OpenAI claims the nine-month chip development cycle represents the fastest ASIC development cycle ever achieved in high-performance advanced semiconductors.
Engineering samples of Jalapeño are running ML workloads in OpenAI’s lab at production target frequency and power, including GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark. Jalapeño is designed for initial deployment by the end of 2026.
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan stated the collaboration is enabling deployment of gigawatt scale data centers with Microsoft and other partners beginning in 2026.
Major Research Talent Shifts Away from Google
On the same day, significant personnel moves reshuffled the AI research landscape. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, who played key roles in developing Google’s Gemini model, are leaving Google for Anthropic.
John Jumper, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for AlphaFold work, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic.
Noam Shazeer, who co-led Gemini development at Google, left to join OpenAI.
Source: OpenAI