Nvidia ramps up production of Vera Rubin, the foundation of the next generation of AI factories
Nvidia Corp. said early Monday at the Computex conference in Taipei that it’s gearing up the production of its forthcoming Vera Rubin platform, which is set to become the foundation of a new generation of artificial intelligence factories that will dominate the enterprise infrastructure story for years to come.
The company unveiled Vera Rubin for the first time in March at its annual GTC developer conference, and today’s announcement that the systems are entering volume production means it’s coming into closer view.
Vera Rubin is named after the pioneering astronomer who first discovered evidence for dark matter, and it’s much more than just a simple refresh of Nvidia’s previous-generation graphics processing units. The company said it’s a complete architectural overhaul that’s aimed at powering the enterprise shift toward “agentic AI” – a world where autonomous AI agents that can reason, use third-party software tools and execute complex workloads on behalf of humans.
The Vera Rubin platform is anchored by Nvidia’s new Rubin graphics processing unit, which is the successor to the Grace Blackwell GPU, but that’s not all. The platform also consists of Nvidia’s new Vera central processing units, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 data processing unit and the Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch, plus the new Nvidia Groq 3 language processing unit that’s designed to support the deterministic, low-latency requirements of trillion-parameter model inference. It combines these components into a fully integrated system that delivers 10 times as much “agentic AI” throughput at scale than the previous-generation Grace Blackwell platform.
