Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra GB300 and Vera Rubin, its next AI ‘superchips’

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Nvidia now makes $2,300 in profit every second on the back of the AI revolution. Its data center business is so gigantic, even its networking hardware now rakes in more money than its gaming GPUs. Now, the company is announcing the AI GPUs that it hopes will extend its commanding lead: the Blackwell Ultra GB300, which will ship in the second half of this year, the Vera Rubin for second half of next year, and the Rubin Ultra that will arrive in the second half of 2027. This year’s Blackwell Ultra isn’t what we originally expected, when Nvidia said last year that it would begin producing new AI chips on a yearly cadence, faster than ever before. But Nvidia quickly moved on from Blackwell Ultra during today’s GDC keynote to reveal its next architecture, Vera Rubin, whose full rack should offer 3.3x the performance of a comparable Bl ... Read full article.