By Darragh Murphy
Publication Date: 2026-02-19 12:26:00
Nvidia GTC 2026 is gearing up to be quite the show, with CEO Jensen Huang now hyping up the annual AI conference with “several new chips the world has never seen before.” But what chips can we expect?
During an interview with media site Korean Economic Daily, Huang expressed that GTC 2026, taking place from March 16, will unveil “a chip that will surprise the world.” While there’s no indication of what this chipset could be, it’s easy to think the upcoming Nvidia N1X for PCs is a likely candidate. However, this may not be the case.
A mystery chip to ‘surprise the world’
During the interview, Huang notes that “nothing is easy because all technologies are at their limits,” but with the partnership between Nvidia and SK Hynix, one of the three semiconductor companies, “nothing is impossible.”
This only makes Huang’s statement of revealing “several new chips the world has never seen before” at GTC 2026 more bold, and while the long-anticipated Nvidia N1X and N1 chips for desktops and laptops are a good contender, looking to take on Intel’s Panther Lake CPU lineup (especially in terms of integrated graphics performance), we’ve heard N1X is rumored to be delayed.
As with past GTC events, Nvidia generally focuses on…
