ChatGPT developer OpenAI has been musing over building its own AI chips for some time now but it looks like the project is definitely going ahead, as United Daily News reports the company is paying TSMC to make the new chips. But rather than using its current N4 or N3 process nodes, OpenAI has booked production slots for the 1.6 nm, so-called A16, process node.
The report from UDN (via Wccftech) doesn't provide any concrete evidence for this claim but the Taiwanese news agency is usually pretty accurate when it comes to tech forecasts like this. At the moment, OpenAI spends vast amounts of money to run ChatGPT, in part due to the very high cost of Nvidia's AI servers.
