Nvidia is kicking off 2026 with the early launch of its new Vera Rubin computing platform, following a record-breaking year for the Rubin GPU’s predecessor Blackwell, fueled by the AI boom (or bubble).
During a press briefing ahead of today’s keynote, Dion Harris, Nvidia’s senior director of HPC and AI infrastructure solutions, described Vera Rubin as “six chips that make one AI supercomputer.”
Those six chips include the Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6th-gen switch, Connect-X9 NIC, BlueField4 DPU, and Spectrum-X 102.4T CPO. The platform will support 3rd-generation confidential computing and, according to Nvidia, will be the first rack-sca …