GTC 2026

The biggest developer artificial intelligence conference, GTC, takes place in San Jose, California, from March 16 to March 19, 2026.

Tom's Hardware will be on the ground, attending keynotes, important conferences, and reporting on some of the latest upcoming AI technology from the show.

This year promises to be another exciting event, starting with a keynote with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

▪️ Nvidia Keynote - Monday, March 16, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.

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Examining Nvidia's 60 exaflop Vera Rubin POD — how seven chips underpin company's 40 rack AI factory supercomputer
By Luke James published 17 March 26
Premium Nvidia announced seven chips in full production at GTC 2026 on Monday, composing the Vera Rubin platform that the company intends to ship in the second half of this year.

We got a first look at Nvidia's DLSS 5 and the future of neural rendering at GTC
By Jeffrey Kampman published 17 March 26
New AI model can dramatically improve the appearance of games, but it's early days for the tech.

Nvidia launches BlueField-4 STX storage architecture for agentic AI at GTC 2026
Nvidia announced BlueField-4 STX at GTC 2026 on March 16, a modular reference architecture for accelerated storage designed to address the data access bottleneck limiting agentic AI inference.

Nvidia removes Rubin CPX accelerators from its roadmap
By Anton Shilov published 17 March 26
Nvidia's slides at GTC lack any mentions of Rubin CPX, but praise Groq LPUs instead.

Micron enters high-volume production of HBM4 for Nvidia Vera Rubin
By Luke James published 16 March 26
The HBM4 36GB 12H stack runs at over 11 Gb/s pin speeds, delivering bandwidth greater than 2.8 TB/s.

Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote live blog — Vera Rubin GPUs and CPUs, DLSS 5, and the 'future of technology'
By Jake Roach last updated 16 March 26
Nvidia's GTC 2026 keynote has wrapped, but Tom's Hardware was on the ground to deliver live updates during CEO Jensen Huang's two-hour presentation.

Nvidia announces Vera Rubin Space Module
Six commercial space companies are understood to have already deployed the platform.

Nvidia's Nemotron coalition brings eight AI labs together to build open frontier models
"Open models are the lifeblood of innovation and the engine of global participation in the AI revolution," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Intel Xeon 6 selected as host CPU for Nvidia DGX Rubin NVL8 systems
Intel announced today at Nvidia GTC 2026 in San Jose that its Xeon 6 processor will serve as the host CPU in Nvidia's DGX Rubin NVL8 systems.

Nvidia Groq 3 LPU and Groq LPX racks join Rubin platform at GTC — SRAM-packed accelerator boosts 'every layer of the AI model on every token'
By Jeffrey Kampman published 16 March 26
Groq tech readies Rubin for the multi-agent system frontier
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