OpenAI is making its own AI chips with Broadcom's help

OpenAI is hungry for as much compute power as it can get its hands on, and the company has signed another deal with a chipmaker to help make that happen. This time around, it's teaming up with Broadcom to make custom chips and systems for use in both OpenAI's infrastructure and its partners' data centers.

OpenAI is designing the "AI accelerators" and systems. Broadcom will start deploying those racks in the second half of next year, the companies said. The aim is to complete the rollout by the end of 2029. The two companies are said to have started working together 18 months ago.

The deal is for 10 gigawatts of chips and it's worth "multiple billions of dollars," according to The Wall Street Journal. It was reported last month that OpenAI and Broadcom were making custom chips together. For what it's worth, the latter's ...