Nvidia on Wednesday introduced its next-generation GPU called Blackwell Ultra, and also announced new systems based on the chipset. The Blackwell Ultra GPU is in production and will succeed the current generation GPU called Blackwell, said Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing, in a press briefing call.

Rubin will be followed by Rubin Ultra in the second half of 2027, a collection Vera Rubin GPUs, Huang said. Around the same time, Nvidia will release a Rubin Next chip that combines four GPU dies to make a single chip, doubling Rubin’s speed.

Late into his keynote at Nvidia’s 2025 GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang announced the next generation of Nvidia AI data center chips named Vera and Rubin, after the groundbreaking astrophysicist. Vera is an Arm-based CPU chip that is the ringleader in an Nvidia AI server,