# OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition > Source: > Published: 2026-08-25 14:00:00+00:00 # OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition By Emma RothSource: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com)[OpenAI](/glossary/openai) says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the "best of both worlds" with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems typically "have to make a trade-off between the two." [First introduced in June](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/955939/openai-reveals-its-first-ai-processor-jalapeno), Jalapeño is an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) made in partnership with Broadcom. It's designed for AI [inference](/glossary/inference) - the process of running a trained AI model to complete a task or deploy an agent. To mea … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.