OpenAI’s Jalapeño! Feeling Hot Hot Hot!

Austin and Vik react to OpenAI's Jalapeño announcement at Hot Chips. Plus extra spicy questions like should OpenAI sell it, how much of this was AI-written RTL, and where is Anthropic's chip? Key Takeaways: - The chip's core design philosophy is "dark silicon is cheaper than idle accelerators" — using one balanced chip and power-gating unused blocks is more efficient than a two-chip (e.g. GPU + LPU) solution. - The unprecedented nine-month RTL-to-tapeout cycle was enabled by AI for EDA tool...