On the near horizon — H2 2025 — Nvidia will release Blackwell Ultra, a GPU that’ll come in several configurations. A single Ultra chip will offer the same 20 petaflops of AI performance as Blackwell, but with 288GB of memory — up from 192GB in vanilla Blackwell.

Late into his keynote at Nvidia’s 2025 GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang announced the next generation of Nvidia AI data center chips named Vera and Rubin, after the groundbreaking astrophysicist. Vera is an Arm-based CPU chip that is the ringleader in an Nvidia AI server,

The company’s new chips are built to meet generative AI’s growing demand for real-time reasoning capabilities.

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, starts this week in San Jose. We're on the ground covering all the major developments. CEO Jensen Huang will give a keynote address focusing on — what else?

Chief Jensen Huang unveils Vera Rubin semiconductor and says appetite for ever-faster ones and software will continue to grow