OpenAI just turned up the heat — and the spice. The company unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom AI inference chip, co-designed with Broadcom in a blistering nine months — a timeline that typically stretches into years for new processor architectures. Jalapeño is a "blank-slate" design purpose-built for large language model inference, not the general-purpose GPU approach Nvidia dominates. It's targeting "gigawatt scale" data centers from Microsoft and others starting...