- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Rubin platform at Computex in Taipei.
- Named after astronomer Vera Rubin, Rubin arrived just a few months after Nvidia unveiled Blackwell.
- Nvidia is looking to expand its customer base across various industries as demand for AI grows.
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CEO Jensen Huang hesitantly unveiled the company’s latest AI platform, Rubin, at the Computex conference in Taipei on Sunday, less than three months after Nvidia unveiled its predecessor, the Blackwell chips.
Huang didn’t offer many details. He described Rubin as the company’s “next-generation platform” and said it will use HBM4, the next version of essential high-bandwidth memory. He also said Nvidia plans to develop chips on a “one-year cadence,” and that Rubin will be followed by Rubin Ultra. The new chips are expected to start shipping in 2026.
The platform is named after Vera Florence Cooper Rubin, the astronomer who established the existence of dark matter and also led studies of the structure and movement of galaxies.
Nvidia has generated billions of dollars in revenue in the past few months as one of the biggest suppliers to the AI boom, and its processors are fueling an arms race among tech giants.
Now, Huang said, the company is working to expand its customer base by helping companies ranging from shipbuilders to drug developers to government agencies adopt AI, Bloomberg reported.
“There is calculation inflation,” Huang said Sunday.
