OpenAI Jalapeño: the custom chip beating Nvidia on inference
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip with Broadcom — up to 1.9x more performance per watt. OpenAI is building its own hardware.
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OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip with Broadcom — up to 1.9x more performance per watt. OpenAI is building its own hardware.
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