OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts, not Nvidia's Vera

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OpenAI’s new Jalapeño ASIC (a chip built for one specific job rather than general use) is being deployed internally alongside AMD EPYC Turin hosts, each with 1.5TB of memory. OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts — Hardware VP says Nvidia’s Vera standalone is ‘a little bit behind… on that maturity level’ News By Jake Roach Published 2 October 2026 Hardware VP Robert Ho says the choice to use Turin was “pragmatic.” OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeño ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm’s AGI or Nvidia’s Vera. AMD is an electrical and semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, founded in 1969, and its products and services include computer hardware. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, founded in 2015.