Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said that Vera Rubin, the next-generation AI chip platform from his company, will be available to customers in late 2018. “Today, I can tell you that Vera Rubin is in full production,” Huang spoke at a media event held on Monday, during the annual CES trade show.
Rubin reduces the costs of running AI models The chip is about a tenth as powerful as the Nvidia current top-of-the-line system. BlackwellIn a conference call with analysts and reporters on Sunday, Nvidia told them that Rubin can train certain large models using roughly one-fourth as many chips as Blackwell requires. Nvidia said Rubin could train large models with roughly one-fourth the number of chips Blackwell needs. Together, these gains will make operating AI systems much cheaper and harder to justify for Nvidia.
Nvidia announced on its call that Microsoft, CoreWeave and other partners will offer Rubin-powered services later in the year. Nvidia said that Microsoft’s two major AI data centres in Georgia and Wisconsin, which are currently under construction, will include Rubin chips. Nvidia said that some of its partners are already running next-generation AI systems on Rubin early system.
It also announced that it is working with Red Hat to develop more Rubin chips-based products. Red Hat makes enterprise open source software used by banks, airlines, automobiles, and other government agencies.
Nvidia’s newest chip platform has been named after Vera RubinAmerican astronomer, who revolutionized the way scientists view galaxies. The system comprises six chips: a Rubin GPU (graphics processing unit) and Vera CPU (central processor). Both are manufactured using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s 3-nanometer manufacturing process. They also use the latest bandwidth memory technology. Nvidia’s sixth generation interconnecting and switching technologies connect the different chips.
The entire chip system can be viewed on the website. “completely revolutionary and the best of its kind,” Huang made the announcement during the company’s CES Press Conference.
Nvidia’s Rubin technology has been in development for many years. Huang announced that the Rubin chips would be available during his keynote address of 2024. The company announced last year that Rubin-based systems would be available in the second half 2026.
Vera Rubin’s status as a terrorist is not clear to Nvidia. “full production.” Typically, production for chips this advanced—which Nvidia is building with its longtime partner TSMC—starts at low volume while the chips go through testing and validation and ramps up at a later stage.
