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2026-07-01
finance.yahoo.com
2026-07-01
Yahoo Finance
After China, OpenAI Chips Away at Nvidia: So Why is NVDA Stock Up?
Lockridge Okoth
June 30, 2026 3 min read
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China just built a major AI model without Nvidia chips. Now OpenAI has found ways to run on far fewer of them, cutting inference costs by more than half. Even so, Nvidia
2026-06-29
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2026-06-29
Yahoo Finance
CoreWeave (CRWV) Secures $99 Billion Backlog With Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft And OpenAI
Bailey Pemberton
June 28, 2026 4 min read
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2026-06-27
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2026-06-27
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2026-06-27
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2026-06-27
The Motley Fool
Shares of chipmaker Nvidia (
NVDA
1.39%
) have been the purest way to bet on the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. So when one of its largest customers shows up with a chip of its own, investors pay attention.
On June 24, OpenAI and Broadcom (
AVGO
2.47%
) pulled the wrapper off Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI chip. Designed by the maker of ChatGPT and built with Broadcom, it's the first piec
2026-06-27
finance.yahoo.com
2026-06-27
Yahoo Finance
Broadcom, Micron, AMD, and Other AI Chip Stocks Slumped on Friday. You Can Thank OpenAI and SpaceX.
Danny Vena, CPA, The Motley Fool
June 26, 2026 4 min read
The past few years have been lucrative for semiconductor investors. This has been especially true for chip stocks serving the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The PHLX Semiconductor Index -- which lists the 30 largest U.S.-listed chipmaker
2026-06-27
www.fool.com
2026-06-27
The Motley Fool
The past few years have been lucrative for semiconductor investors. This has been especially true for chip stocks serving the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The PHLX Semiconductor Index -- which lists the 30 largest U.S.-listed chipmakers -- has soared 429% (as of this writing) since the adoption of AI began in earnest in early 2023.
At the same time, those same stocks have been fraught with
2026-06-27
techcrunch.com
2026-06-27
TechCrunch
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Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.
OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a clea
2026-06-26
tomshardware.com
2026-06-26
Jowi Morales
The U.S. government wants to ensure that its latest, most advanced AI tools can't be used against it.
2026-06-26
news.google.com
2026-06-26
The New York Times
2026-06-26
www.fastcompany.com
2026-06-26
Fast Company
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2026-06-26
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2026-06-26
Yahoo Finance
Nvidia once explored a $100B chip deal with OpenAI. Now OpenAI is building its own chips from scratch
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
Fri, June 26, 2026 at 3:00 AM PDT 5 min read
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OpenAI is now a chipmaker. That could cause headaches for Nvidia, another major chipmaking firm that cultivated close ties with OpenAI as a top chip supplier.
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2026-06-26
easternherald.com
2026-06-26
The Eastern Herald
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, a Custom AI Chip Claiming Half the Inference Cost
OpenAI says its new custom chip cuts inference costs by 50%. The company has not published the benchmarks to prove it.
BY TECHNOLOGY DESK
JUNE 25, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan at the Jalapeño chip announcement. [Image Source: CNBC]
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2026-06-26
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2026-06-26
Data Center Dynamics
OpenAI is hiring for a deal lead to form "high-value" partnerships with semiconductor companies.
The new hire is expected to pitch the use of OpenAI's AI models in chip development and company operations. The position and effort has not been previously reported.
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2026-06-25
eetimes.com
2026-06-25
The custom inference accelerator follows the hyperscaler playbook, but the AI-automated chip design process could prove the more consequential announcement.
2026-06-25
news.google.com
2026-06-25
EE Times
2026-06-25
yourstory.com
2026-06-25
YourStory.com
Explainers
OpenAI turns up the heat in chip market with Jalapeño
The Jalapeño chip highlights that frontier AI requires vast power and bespoke hardware from specialised factories, while also marking OpenAI’s strategic transition into a leading full-stack semiconductor and infrastructure player.
Ishan Patra
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Thursday June 25, 2026 , 7 min Read
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has stepped beyond th
2026-06-25
fortune.com
2026-06-25
Fortune
Good morning. Today’s word of the day is “adversarial distillation,” which Anthropic accuses Alibaba of doing to its AI models in a new letter to U.S. lawmakers.
Alibaba allegedly accessed Anthropic’s Claude for three months to illicitly extract its capabilities in a presumed bid to train Alibaba’s rival AI chabot, Qwen, at a fraction of the cost.
We’re not talking about a handful of times here:
2026-06-25
digitimes.com
2026-06-25
OpenAI on June 24 unveiled "Jalapeño," its first in-house AI accelerator, co-developed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC — the clearest sign yet that leading model developers want to design their own chips and broaden a supply chain long dominated by Nvidia.
2026-06-25
www.msn.com
2026-06-25
MSN
Broadcom (AVGO) and OpenAI (OPENAI) revealed the fruits of its partnership today with Jalapeño, a new chip designed specifically to run inference for large language models.
Broadcom shares inched up 0.5% during early market trading on Wednesday.
OpenAI designed the chip, while partners Broadcom (AVGO) and Celestica (CLS) helped industrialize the platform through chip implementation, board, rack
2026-06-25
tomshardware.com
2026-06-25
Anton Shilov
Broadcom and OpenAI reveal their Jalapeño custom-built inference ASIC that allegedly beats existing leading-edge in terms of performance-per-watt.