Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Jeffrey Kampman

Nvidia launches Vera Rubin NVL72 AI supercomputer at CES — promises up to 5x greater inference performance and 10x lower cost per token than Blackwell, coming 2H 2026

Nvidia Vera Rubin, CES 2026.

AI is everywhere at CES 2026, and Nvidia GPUs are at the center of the expanding AI universe. Today, during his CES keynote, CEO Jensen Huang shared his plans for how the company will remain at the forefront of the AI revolution as the technology reaches far beyond chatbots into robotics, autonomous vehicles, and the broader physical world.

First up, Huang officially launched Vera Rubin, Nvidia's next-gen AI data center rack-scale architecture. Rubin is the result of what the company calls "extreme co-design" across six types of chips: the Vera CPU, the Rubin GPU, the NVLink 6 switch, the ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, the BlueField-4 data processing unit, and the Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch. Those building blocks all come together to create the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.