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MoFo Advises OpenAI on Co-Development of AI Accelerator Chips with Broadcom

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Morrison Foerster advised OpenAI on agreements for the co-development and supply of AI accelerators with Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO),...

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Morrison Foerster advised OpenAI on agreements for the co-development and supply of AI accelerators with Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO), a leader in designing, developing and supplying advanced semiconductors. 10 gigawatts of the OpenAI-designed AI accelerators will be deployed in OpenAI’s facilities and partner data centers.By designing its own chips, OpenAI can embed what it’s learned from developing frontier models and products directly into hardware, unlocking new levels of capability and intelligence. The AI accelerators will meet surging global demand for AI.The deployment of racks containing the AI accelerators is targeted to start in the second half of 2026 and to be completed by the end of 2029.The MoFo team advising OpenAI was led by technology transactions partner Justin Haan.Read the <a href="https://openai.com/index/openai-and-broadcom-announce-strategic-collaboration/" target="_blank">press release</a>.

MoFo Advises OpenAI on Co-Development of AI Accelerator Chips with Broadcom

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Justin Haan is a partner in the firm’s Technology Transactions Group in the San Francisco office, advising leading technology industry pioneers to help them navigate their most critical IP and technology needs.Justin’s practice focuses on transactions and counseling involving intellectual property and technology, including licensing arrangements, technology transfers, and joint development activities. Justin structures, drafts, and negotiates a wide range of commercial agreements, including software and content licenses, service agreements, reseller arrangements, and collaboration, manufacturing, supply and distribution agreements. He advises clients on the development, procurement and commercialization of cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented/virtual reality, semiconductors, cloud computing services, autonomous vehicles, and unmanned aircraft systems. Justin also counsels clients on open source software, complex patent-related transactions, and the intellectual property aspects of M&A transactions. Justin’s experience includes advising OpenAI, Arm, Autodesk, Meta, Salesforce, SoftBank, Unity, and others on the IP aspects of complex projects involving cutting-edge technologies and fast-evolving areas of law. Justin serves on the firm’s AI industry committee, where he helps to lead and collaborate with attorneys across multiple practices on the rapid advances of generative AI. Justin is also a sought–after speaker and thought leader on artificial intelligence and has spoken at SXSW on the subject of multimodal AI.Before joining the firm, Justin was an intellectual property associate in the New York office of another global law firm.Justin received his J.D., with a certificate in law and technology, from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where he won the Prosser Prize in intellectual property in the entertainment industries and was an articles editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. He received his A.B. from Harvard University.