OpenAI and Broadcom jointly launch LLM inference chip “Jalapeño”

International Tech News:

1. Japanese semiconductor company Rapidus has received an additional 150 billion yen investment from the Japanese government and plans to achieve mass production of 2nm chips by 2027.
2. Blackstone Group will invest $30 billion in Japan to build AI data centers.
3. ASML has partnered with the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) to jointly develop and promote the commercialization of photonic chips.
4. OpenAI and Broadcom jointly announced a custom AI chip named “Jalapeño,” a dedicated integrated circuit designed specifically for large language model (LLM) inference.
5. According to Yonhap News Agency, Samsung Electronics’ sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) has surpassed $1 billion in sales within just over four months.
6. Industry estimates show that in Q2 2026, general-purpose DRAM contract prices rose 58%–63% QoQ, while NAND flash contract prices increased 70%–75% QoQ.

Domestic Tech News:

1. On June 24, Chinese semiconductor company Zhenbao Technology surged 1,212.84% on its first day of listing in Chongqing.
2. The Zhuhai Yiyuan Semiconductor Materials Industrial Base, with a total investment of 10 billion yuan, has completed equipment installation for Phase I and is targeting production in 2026.
3. Slkor recently released the “SL-FW-TRS-5.5D1 Temperature Sensor Application Solution,” covering multiple temperature sensing scenarios. Details are available on Slkor’s official website (slkoric.com).
4. Reuters reported that Qualcomm is in talks with ByteDance to potentially provide chip design services.
5. T-Head Semiconductor, an Alibaba subsidiary, has increased its registered capital from 300 million yuan to 1 billion yuan.
6. CATL has launched the world’s first site-level sodium-ion energy storage solution, introducing a validated sodium battery storage system named “Tianheng Sodium.”

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