Hot Chips 2026: OpenAI's Jalapeño AI ASIC unpacked — accelerator developed using AI achieves efficiency and throughput gains against power-hungry Blackwell

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OpenAI's first AI accelerator fails to beat Nvidia's Blackwell in terms of raw performance, but it can offer very good performance-per-watt and low latency, which is exactly what the doctor ordered for inference workloads.
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