Jalapeño is the first AI chip from OpenAI and Broadcom

OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled the design for Jalapeño, their first jointly-made chip. The pair of companies announced plans to collaborate on a making a custom AI accelerator in October 2025. In its blog post today, OpenAI called Jalapeño its first Intelligence Processor: an accelerator architected around OpenAI's vision for the future of LLM inference. In other words, the processor is designed to run its large language models. The AI company claims that so far, Jalapeño is offering performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art in chip technology.