Collette Cress, chief financial officer of Nvidia, has said that the company's next-generation data center-grade GPU codenamed Rubin and CPU, codenamed Vera have been taped out and were 'in fab,' which means that their silicon is currently being produced by TSMC. The announcement indicates that Nvidia's next-generation data center platform for AI is on track for introduction in 2026.
"The chips of the Rubin platform are in fab," said Collette Kress during the company's earnings conference call with financial analysts and investors. "The Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, CX9 Super NIC, NVLink 144 scale-up switch, Spectrum X scale-out and scale-across switch, and the silicon photonics processor [for co-packages optics]. Rubin remains on schedule for volume production next year."
