Nvidia launches Vera Rubin AI platform with six TSMC chips

Nvidia has announced the Vera Rubin AI supercomputer platform is in full production, featuring six new chips manufactured by TSMC.

• Main announcement: Nvidia unveiled the Vera Rubin platform comprised of six concurrent chips (Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU, Spectrum-X Ethernet Switch) primarily produced on TSMC’s 3-nanometer process; the flagship system is the liquid-cooled Vera Rubin NVL72 weighing nearly 2 tons, and the company stated the platform is “in full production.”
• Background and details: Nvidia says the new platform slashes inference costs to one-seventh of Blackwell and reduces GPU count for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training by 75%; leading adopters expected include AWS, Meta, Google, and Microsoft, and Hon Hai (Foxconn) is cited as the main manufacturer of servers using the Rubin platform.