OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale
The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and Codex and the models those tools utilize, and Broadcom, an established silicon supplier, have announced a new chip called Jalapeño, designed specifically for large language model inference in data centers.
The chip is intended to be deployed at large data centers, both companies claim this is just the first generation in a long-term project that will see chips refined over time.
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