Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky, Nvidia is a leading global manufacturer of high-end GPUs. Headquartered in Santa Clara, it holds over 80% of the global GPU semiconductor market. With a market cap of $4,392.22 billion (as of November 24), it remains a dominant force in chipmaking.
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Nvidia Unveils Powerful Vera Rubin AI Chip at CES 2026

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launched the Rubin computing architecture at CES 2026, named after astronomer Vera Florence Cooper Rubin.
  • The six-chip system, featuring Vera CPU and two Rubin GPUs, addresses skyrocketing AI computational demands.
  • It's 3.5x faster for model training and 5x faster for inference than Blackwell, with 50 petaflops peak performance.
  • Already in production, major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, and OpenAI will use Rubin chips.
  • The architecture solidifies Nvidia's position as the world's most valuable corporation in the AI market.

Why It Matters: Nvidia's new Vera Rubin chip revolutionizes AI computing with unprecedented speed and efficiency.

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