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INSIDE OPENAI'S JALAPEÑO AI CHIP

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OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip links 64 dedicated cores to individual HBM memory banks to reduce data movement and improve utilization. This interview explains the tradeoff in memory-management complexity, the choice to keep prefill and decode on fungible hardware, and how AI-assisted optimization accelerated chip design and kernel development.