OpenAI and Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) unveiled Jalapeño on June 24, 2026, introducing OpenAI’s first Intelligence Processor, a custom accelerator built around large language model inference. The companies announced the chip from San Francisco and Palo Alto, California, calling it the first AI accelerator in a multi-generation compute platform they are building together. Jalapeño is designed to make advanced AI faster, more reliable, and more accessible through hardware built for inference, the stage where models generate responses for users and applications. OpenAI said the chip expands its platform from products and models into silicon, adding hardware design to the systems behind… [Continue Reading]