Michael Darius Eastwood · Independent AI alignment researcher
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OpenAI+Broadcom Jalapeño inference ASIC: 9-month tape-out, 10 GW deployment target through 2029, Microsoft among deployment partners.
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, announced June 2026 with Broadcom, is a vertical integration move: the model company becoming a silicon company, with a ten gigawatt deployment target. Every major laboratory is now doing the same. The Chokepoint chapter's argument was that compute infrastructure is where control concentrates and therefore where governance must attach. The industry reorganising itself around exactly that concentration is the thesis confirmed by capital allocation.
Open the primary source above. Confirm the date. Confirm the finding. Then compare it against the manuscript passage or artifact named in the register entry, whose SHA-256 hash is published on the evidence page. Nothing in this article asks for trust; the entry either survives that comparison or it comes off the register, publicly, the way the programme's retracted scaling figure did.
From the book Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything by Michael Darius Eastwood.