By Zak Killian
Publication Date: 2026-02-19 12:00:00
Everyone’s favorite leather jacket enthusiast and AI goldmine architect Jensen Huang gave an exclusive interview to Korea Economic Daily where he made some pretty interesting remarks, and key among them was the statement that NVIDIA has “prepared some new chips that the world has never seen before.” But what was he actually talking about?
When I read that initially, my mind went directly to the NVIDIA N1/N1X client SoCs that have been rumored for more than a year now. After all, those chips were said to be launching in Q1 of this year, and mid-March (GTC takes place March 16-19) is pretty close to the end of Q1. They’re also quite novel, being (reportedly) NVIDIA’s first SoCs to ship targeting a Windows platform.
However, in the context of the interview, it seems like that might not be the case. Huang was talking to Korea Economic Daily about NVIDIA’s partnership with SK hynix in quite complimentary terms, calling the SK hynix team “the world’s best memory team” and saying that the two companies are “one huge team”. He praised the company’s efforts in improving its HBM4 technology, which is a key component of NVIDIA’s upcoming Rubin accelerators.
So, what is Huang actually referencing when he says NVIDIA will show off “new chips that the world has never seen before”? It could be new components used in the Vera Rubin NVL144 racks, like new DPUs or other networking components. It could also be another Rubin variant, similar to the Rubin CPX chips the company…
