Nvidia Announces Rubin AI Chips for 2026, Trillion-Dollar Data Center Boom

Nvidia (NVDA, Financial) started its annual GTC 2025 event on Mar. 18 2025 by having CEO Jensen Huang deliver a compelling keynote presentation about artificial intelligence’s fast development. Huang branded the gathering an AI Super Bowl because agentic AI technology has grown so advanced it requires at least 100 times more processing power than analysts predicted during the previous year.

Huang revealed that the major cloud infrastructure providers Amazon Web Services (AMZN, Financial), together with Azure and Google Cloud Platform alongside Oracle Cloud, have spent 3.6 million dollars on Blackwell GPUs which represents a significant boost from their previous purchase of 1.3 million Hopper GPUs. Massive data center investments amounting to more than US$1 trillion remain expected to develop through the end of the decade as Blackwell GPUs enter the market.

The new technical offerings included CUD-SS, which launched as a CUDA library that specialized in computer-aided engineering through a partnership between Nvidia and Ansys (ANSS, Financial) and Cadence Design Systems (CDNS, Financial). At the annual developer conference, Nvidia CEO Huang presented strategic partnerships for T-Mobile (TMUS, Financial), Cisco (CSCO, Financial) and Cerberus ODC together with an announcement that General Motors (GM, Financial) selected Nvidia to develop its self-driving technology.

Nvidia scheduled Blackwell Ultra to arrive in H2 2025 alongside Rubin in H2 2026 before revealing the release of Rubin Ultra in H2 2027 to establish future innovations.

This article first appeared on GuruFocus.