Here's NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin AI Superchip — 88 Cores, Two GPUs, Gobs Of Memory And Next-Level Design

NVIDIA held its annual Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) in Washington D.C. yesterday, and as a surprise showing in the middle of his keynote, company CEO Jensen Huang pulled out a Vera Rubin Superchip, marking the first time that this product was shown to the public. The part looks quite different from even the GB300 Blackwell Ultra Superchip, largely thanks to its use of SOCAMM2 memory and on-board connectivity.

If you haven't been following along, the Vera Rubin Superchip is named for the combination of the 88-core Arm-based Vera CPU along with two Rubin GPUs, each of which boasts a pair of reticle-sized dice along with 288GB of HBM4 memory. NVIDIA's actually counting the dice separately, so where a rack of Blackwell is called NVL72, a rack with the same number of Rubin packages will be ...