By Ananya Gairola
Publication Date: 2026-08-15 11:31:00
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Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that the company’s older AI chips can remain economically useful for nearly a decade, pushing back against concerns that rapid advances in AI could quickly make GPUs obsolete.
Jensen Huang Says A100 GPUs Can Last Nearly a Decade
Huang said on X that Nvidia’s A100 fleet is “mission-capable from 2020 through 2029,” highlighting the longevity of the company’s data center GPUs.
The A100 debuted in 2020 as part of Nvidia’s Ampere generation.
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“NVIDIA computing is more than chips,” Huang said, pointing to the company’s CUDA software platform as a key reason its hardware can remain useful across generations.
“CUDA makes NVIDIA computing versatile,” he added. “Versatility makes it fungible. Fungibility drives utilization and extends durability.”
His comments came after reposting a Business Insider report about the continued demand for the five-year-old A100.
The mighty A100 fleet are mission-capable from 2020 through 2029. NVIDIA computing is more than chips. CUDA gives developers and NVIDIA engineers a common platform to continually upgrade Ampere, Hopper and Blackwell throughout their useful lives.
CUDA makes NVIDIA computing… https://t.co/KQ1kp7Vpae— Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) August 13, 2026