Why OpenAI, SpaceX and others are building custom chips — and what it means for Nvidia

Friends, a brief update from the AI and hardware front: major players are shifting to custom silicon.

OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño (developed with Broadcom); Google, Apple and SpaceX are joining. The goal is not solely to decouple from Nvidia but to hedge supplier risk and optimize for their specific workloads.

Advantages: full control over architecture, acceleration of specialized tasks, and reduced supplier dependency—echoing Apple’s move from Intel.

Why this matters: it will increase competition and broaden options for infrastructure scaling.

What are your plans to diversify hardware platforms?

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