Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES

CES used to be all about consumer electronics, TVs, smartphones, tablets, PCs, and – over the last few years – automobiles. Now, it's just another opportunity for Nvidia to peddle its AI hardware and software — in particular its next-gen Vera Rubin architecture.

The AI arms dealer boasts that, compared to Blackwell, the chips will deliver up to 5x higher floating point performance for inference, 3.5x for training, along with 2.8x more memory bandwidth and an NvLink interconnect that's now twice as fast.

But don't get too excited just yet. It's not like the chips are launching earlier than previously expected. They're still expected to arrive in the second half of the year, just like Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra did.

Nvidia normally holds off until GTC in March to reveal its next-gen chips. Perhaps AMD's aggressive rack scale roadmap has Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang ...