By Daniel Howley
Publication Date: 2026-03-13 13:22:00
Nvidia’s (NVDA) GTC 2026, the company’s biggest event of the year, kicks off in San Jose, Calif., on Monday with a keynote from CEO Jensen Huang.
The show starts at 1 p.m. ET, when Huang will take the stage at San Jose’s SAP Center to provide developers, analysts, and the press with updates on what the company is preparing for the year ahead.
The leather-jacket-clad CEO’s keynotes are usually littered with a litany of product launches and updates, and we’ll likely see the same at this year’s event.
Nvidia has been on a dealmaking spree over the past several months, ranging from agreements with chip companies to software firms, and we’re all but guaranteed to learn more about how the AI chip giant is integrating those technologies and capabilities into its own offerings.
One of Nvidia’s most interesting deals over the past 12 months was its nonexclusive agreement to use chipmaker Groq’s inferencing technologies in December. As part of the move, Nvidia also hired Groq founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra, and other company leaders.
Groq designs chips it calls language processing units, or LPUs, that are designed for inferencing, or running, AI models. The company claims its processors can run large language and other AI models up to 10 times more efficiently than GPUs.
As the…
