
Meet the next next-generation: At Computex 2024 this morning, Nvidia announced the Rubin GPU architecture, the successor to Blackwell. Rubin GPUs are set to splashdown in 2026, bringing support for 8-Hi HBM4 stacks, and will be followed up with Rubin Ultra GPUs, supporting 12-Hi HBM4 stacks. A powerful new CPU called Vera has also been announced, as well as a Vera Rubin board combining the GPU and CPU into a superchip. The upcoming state-of-the-art processors are named after Vera Florence Cooper Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who established the presence of dark matter.