The centerpiece announcement was Vera Rubin, first teased at Computex 2024 and now scheduled for release in the second half of 2026. This GPU, named after a famous astronomer, will feature 288 gigabytes of memory and comes with a custom Nvidia-designed CPU called Vera.

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

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,

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday the company was well placed to navigate a shift in the artificial intelligence industry, in which businesses are moving from training AI models to getting detailed answers from them.

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