CES 2026 - AMD's Lisa Su does the yottaflop math, while NVIDIA Jensen Huang puts robotaxis on a collision course with Elon Musk

It was a case of ‘chips with everything’ as the new AI kingmakers took to center stage at the CES 2026 jamboree over the past 48 hours - where NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang found himself having to share the spotlight with his AMD counterpart, Lisa Su.

First up was Su who declared that the world is set to enter the 'yottascale' era as demand for AI and the power to fuel it continues to accelerate. Su argued that we’re going to need up to 10 yottaflops a year by the end of the decade.

OK, hands up out there - what’s a yottaflop in real money? No, me neither.

Actually it’s a one followed by 24 zeros, which Su pointed out is around 10,000 times the amount of global AI compute registered in 2022, which then stood at about one zettaflop (a one followed by 21 zeros). She ...