OpenAI's self-developed chips face obstacles: Broadcom demands Microsoft to purchase 40% of the capacity

OpenAI and Broadcom AI chip partnership falls into funding deadlock. According to reports, when OpenAI and chip design manufacturer Broadcom announced last year the joint development of custom AI chips, both sides considered this collaboration as a fixed, confirmed deal.
Months later, an internal memo and two informed sources involved in negotiations revealed that both parties are negotiating for Broadcom to fund the first phase of chip production.
This phase requires consuming 1.3 gigawatts of data center computing capacity, with an estimated cost of about $18 billion.
Based on this cost, the full project, codenamed “Nexus,” with a total scale of 10 gigawatts, would have chip production costs alone reaching $180 billion, not including data center construction and other supporting expenses.
(Sina Finance)