Between the lines: Holding court at the company's annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CEO Jensen Huang teased Nvidia's new AI system coming in the second half of 2026: Vera Rubin.
"The system has two main components: a CPU, called Vera, and a new GPU design, called Rubin," CNBC reports. "It's named after astronomer Vera Rubin," who discovered evidence of dark matter.
It "can manage 50 petaflops while doing inference, more than double the 20 petaflops for the company's current Blackwell chips."
Catch up quick: Huang said General Motors will integrate Nvidia technology into its future self-driving cars, and will tap the company's systems to help optimize its factories.
Yum Brands will also work with Nvidia to accelerate its AI-powered drive-thru ordering.
The impact: Nvidia shares closed down 3.4% amid a broad sell-off in the so-called Magnificent 7 stocks.
