Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform is poised to massively power up the next generation of AI data centers, or "factories," as CEO Jensen Huang calls them, when those systems start arriving later this year. Today, during his GTC keynote, Huang revealed how Nvidia is using the IP it acquired from Groq last year to expand Rubin's capabilities. The Rubin platform now includes a new chip, the Nvidia Groq 3 LPU, an inference accelerator that bolsters these systems' ability to deliver tokens in volume and at low latency for high interactivity at the leading edge of AI models.
Recall that the Rubin platform already includes six chips from which Nvidia builds up rack-scale systems and scales them out into AI factories: the Rubin GPU itself, the Vera CPU, NVLink 6 scale-up switches, the ConnectX 9 smart NIC, the Bluefield 4 data processing unit, and the Spectrum-X scale-out switch with co-packaged optics. The Groq 3 LPU becomes another building block for Rubin at scale.
