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A lab tapes out its first inference chip in nine months

development2026-06-25

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OpenAI and Broadcom taped out Jalapeño, OpenAI's first inference chip, in nine months, while Qualcomm bought Modular to challenge CUDA and unveiled a CPU with Meta as first customer.

Reported metric: 9 months to tapeout

Reporting date: 2026-06-25 (not necessarily the event date)

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A lab tapes out its first inference chip in nine months
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Reporting date: 2026-06-25
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-25-an-inference-chip-taped-out-in-nine-months
Claim: OpenAI and Broadcom taped out Jalapeño, OpenAI's first inference chip, in nine months, while Qualcomm bought Modular to challenge CUDA and unveiled a CPU with Meta as first customer.
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- Welcome to June 25, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-25-2026
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