Nvidia teases Rubin GPUs and CPUs to succeed Blackwell in 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disclosed in his keynote Sunday night, on the Computex annual commerce present in, Taipei, Taiwan, that the successor to the corporate’s “Blackwell” GPU and CPU household can be known as “Rubin” named for US astronomer Vera Rubin, and can be made accessible within the first half of 2026.

The announcement reinforces Huang’s pledge for Nvidia to be on a one-year cadence of releasing new chip architectures. 

Earlier than clicking the slide to point out the Rubin line, Huang quipped to his viewers, “That is the very first time this subsequent click on has been made, and I am unsure but whether or not I will remorse this or not.”

“All of those chips are in full improvement, a 100% of them, and the rhythm is one 12 months, on the limits of expertise, all 100% architecturally appropriate,” stated Huang, “and the entire richness of software program on high of it.”

The shock unveiling of Rubin comes scorching on the heels of the formal announcement of Blackwell by Huang on the GTC convention in March. 

Based on a analysis observe from Wall Avenue brokerage Jefferies & Co., citing information web site Wccftech, the Rubin chips, together with a GPU chip household, and a CPU chip named Vera, will transfer from utilizing the present quickest laptop DRAM reminiscence, “HBM3e,” to utilizing the subsequent era, “HBM 4.” The GPU chips can be designated as “R100” GPUs. 

The chips can be fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing in a 3-nanometer course of expertise, stated Jefferies analysts, and can begin manufacturing within the fourth quarter of 2025.

The Rubin makes use of what’s known as a “4x reticle design,” the analysts observe, which implies that it takes up extra of the floor space of a 12-inch silicon wafer than does the Blackwell, which is just 3.3x. The “reticle” is the world of a wafer {that a} typical photolithography system can deal with with one go when laying down the circuits of a chip. 

Huang additionally disclosed a forthcoming successor to the Blackwell GPU, Blackwell Extremely. The Rubin structure, stated Huang, will even have its “Extremely” model, following in 2027.

Take a look at all of the Computex information from Nvidia on the corporate’s information web site or this round-up weblog submit on the occasion from the corporate.