Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that the corporate’s next-generation AI superchip platform, Vera Rubin, is on schedule to start arriving to prospects later this yr. “At present, I can let you know that Vera Rubin is in full manufacturing,” Huang mentioned throughout a press occasion on Monday on the annual CES know-how commerce present in Las Vegas.
Rubin will reduce the price of running AI models to about one-tenth of Nvidia’s present main chip system, Blackwell, the corporate advised analysts and journalists throughout a name on Sunday. Nvidia additionally mentioned Rubin can prepare sure giant fashions utilizing roughly one-fourth as many chips as Blackwell requires. Taken collectively, these good points might make superior AI methods considerably cheaper to function and make it tougher for Nvidia’s prospects to justify shifting away from its {hardware}.
Nvidia mentioned on the decision that two of its current companions, Microsoft and CoreWeave, might be among the many first corporations to start providing companies powered by Rubin chips later this yr. Two main AI knowledge facilities that Microsoft is presently constructing in Georgia and Wisconsin will ultimately embrace 1000’s of Rubin chips, Nvidia added. A few of Nvidia’s companions have began working their next-generation AI fashions on early Rubin methods, the corporate mentioned.
The semiconductor large additionally mentioned it’s working with Crimson Hat, which makes open supply enterprise software program for banks, automakers, airways, and authorities businesses, to supply extra merchandise that may run on the brand new Rubin chip system.
Nvidia’s newest chip platform is called after Vera Rubin, an American astronomer who reshaped how scientists perceive the properties of galaxies. The system consists of six completely different chips, together with the Rubin GPU and a Vera CPU, each of that are constructed utilizing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Firm’s 3-nanometer fabrication course of and probably the most superior bandwidth reminiscence know-how accessible. Nvidia’s sixth-generation interconnect and switching applied sciences hyperlink the assorted chips collectively.
Every a part of this chip system is “fully revolutionary and the very best of its variety,” Huang proclaimed in the course of the firm’s CES press convention.
Nvidia has been growing the Rubin system for years, and Huang first introduced the chips have been coming throughout a keynote speech in 2024. Final yr, the corporate mentioned that methods constructed on Rubin would start arriving within the second half of 2026.
It’s unclear precisely what Nvidia means by saying that Vera Rubin is in “full manufacturing.” Usually, manufacturing for chips this superior—which Nvidia is constructing with its longtime associate TSMC—begins at low quantity whereas the chips undergo testing and validation and ramps up at a later stage.
