When Nvidia talked about the launch of its Vera Rubin computing platform for AI and HPC, it only mentioned the second half of 2026 as the launch window for the platform, but this week, Jensen Huang, chief executive of the company, has specified that Nvidia's next-generation CPU and GPU will launch already in the third quarter of 2026. The release of the new platform will be instrumental for the company in achieving $0.5 billion in sales of compute GPUs by the end of 2026, even without selling them to clients in China.
"We are on track to deliver Vera Rubin about Q3 time frame of next year, continuing our once-a-year cycle," Jensen Huang told Bloomberg. "Vera Rubin, seven different chips, are back in our labs, and the bring-up is happening across engineering teams. Probably... 20,000 people are bringing up Vera Rubin from silicon, to systems, to software, to algorithms, people are working around the clock. And this bring-up is going beautifully."
