OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip: AI Costs Are About to Fall
OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño is purpose-built for LLM inference. Here's what CIOs, CTOs, and CFOs need to know about lower AI costs coming in 2026.
June 24, 2026 · 10 min readCustom Silicon
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OpenAI Built Its Own Chip. Inference Just Got 50% Cheaper.
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom inference ASIC designed from scratch for LLM workloads. Built in nine months with AI-assisted design, it claims 50% lower cost per token than NVIDIA GPUs. With Google, Amazon, and Microsoft all building competing custom silicon, the era of GPU-only inference is ending — and the enterprise AI cost structure is about to be rewritten.
June 24, 2026
Meta-AWS Graviton5 Deal: ARM Wins Agentic AI Race
Meta signed a multi-year, multibillion-dollar deal for tens of millions of AWS Graviton5 cores. Here's what enterprise CIOs and CFOs need to learn from it.
April 26, 2026 · 10 min read
Google-Marvell AI Chips: The Inference Economics Shift
Google is designing two new AI chips with Marvell—a memory processor and inference-optimized TPU. What CIOs and CFOs need to know about ASIC economics.
April 21, 2026 · 11 min read