By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-02-20 16:30:00
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has teased that the company is planning a surprise for its customers. In an interview with the Korean Economic Daily, he said that the US-based chip giant has “prepared several new chips the world has never seen before,” and is planning to unveil “a chip that will surprise people” at Nvidia’s GTC event in San Jose, California, which is set to be held next month.The conversation took place after what Huang described as a “celebration of the world’s best memory [semiconductor] team,” following a dinner at a Korean fried chicken restaurant in California attended by engineers from SK Hynix and Nvidia. He also acknowledged that in the current environment “nothing is easy because all technologies are at their limits,” but added that “with a team like this, nothing is impossible.”
How SK Hynix is helping Nvidia with its next chip
Hunag noted that Nvidia and SK Hynix were“working very closely together” and operating as “one giant team,” adding that both sides had worked “really hard to meet the great challenge of Vera Rubin and HBM4.”SK Hynix remains Nvidia’s primary supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, with HBM4 expected to be integrated into Nvidia’s Rubin architecture, which is scheduled to debut in the latter half of 2026.In September 2025, SK Hynix said its sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory chips will deliver…
