CES 2026: NVIDIA Unveils New Six-Chip Rubin AI Platform

NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang launched the company's latest six-chip artificial intelligence (AI) computing platform, Rubin, during the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show.

Rubin is NVIDIA's first "extreme co-designed" six-chip AI platform, and the successor to Blackwell. The Rubin GPU itself includes a total of 336 billion transistors, compared to Blackwell's 208 billion.

The six new chips include:

NVIDIA Vera CPU: 88 NVIDIA custom-designed Olympus cores optimized for the next generation of AI factories with full Arm-compatibility.
NVIDIA Rubin GPU: High-performance AI compute with HBM4 and new NVIDIA Transformer Engine.
NVIDIA NVLink 6 switch: Sixth-generation scale-up fabric delivering 3.6 TB/s GPU-to-GPU bandwidth.
NVIDIA ConnectX-9: High-throughput, low-latency networking interface at the endpoint for scale-out AI.
NVIDIA BlueField-4 data processing unit (DPU): A dual-die package combining: A 64-core NVIDIA Grace CPU for infrastructure offload and security and an integrated NVIDIA ConnectX-9 high-speed networking chip for tightly coupled data movement.
NVIDIA Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch: Scale-out connectivity using co-packaged optics for efficiency and reliability.