Nvidia's post-Hopper GPU architecture, named after the statistician David Blackwell and announced in March 2024 at a keynote held in a hockey arena. Its B200 and the rack-sized GB200 NVL72 system were the chips every 2025 data-centre announcement was counting; a reported design flaw delayed the first shipments in 2024, and the internet learned the word 'yield' from the coverage.
Someone remembers the successor, Rubin, being named at the same keynote the following year while Blackwell was still shipping. The record notes that the company announces the next chip before customers have plugged in the current one.
A report in August 2024 that a design issue had pushed volume shipments back by a quarter. The record notes that the stock fell, recovered and continued, which is the pattern for every Nvidia delay on file.
The record notes that the keynote introducing Blackwell showed a chip the size of a hand and a rack the size of a wardrobe, and that Huang held the first up and stood next to the second.
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