AI is speeding up chip design. That was a key theme in conversations I had this week with engineers, researchers and a handful of startups pitching AI-driven design help at the annual Hot Chips semiconductor conference in Palo Alto, Calif.OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip, which it claims is better than ...

128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin

OpenAI still isn’t giving up Nvidia chips, though.