Nvidia hints at early Vera Rubin launch — on track for $500 billion in GPU sales by late 2026 despite losing China

When Nvidia talked about the launch of its Vera Rubin computing platform for AI and HPC, it only mentioned the second half of 2026 as the launch window for the platform, but this week, Jensen Huang, chief executive of the company, has specified that Nvidia’s next-generation CPU and GPU will launch already in the third quarter of 2026. The release of the new platform will be instrumental for the company in achieving $0.5 billion in sales of compute GPUs by the end of 2026, even without selling them to…