When AI Designs the Brains It Runs On: The Semiconductor Revolution Rewriting Silicon Valley's Rules

The Announcement

On Wednesday, OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, the ChatGPT maker's first custom AI inference chip — a processor designed from the ground up specifically to run large language models, not to serve as a general-purpose GPU. The engineering timeline is the real jaw-dropper: nine months from early schematics to fabrication readiness, as VentureBeat reported. In an industry where new processor architectures routinely take three to five years, that's not fast — that's...