Nvidia recently revealed details about its new AI graphics processors, and one of them is named for a scientist familiar to many space fans. Vera Rubin, the namesake for one of Nvidia's new AI GPU platforms,

On the near horizon — H2 2025 — Nvidia will release Blackwell Ultra, a GPU that’ll come in several configurations. A single Ultra chip will offer the same 20 petaflops of AI performance as Blackwell, but with 288GB of memory — up from 192GB in vanilla Blackwell.

The Vera Rubin die will have two GPUs sandwiched together, delivering over 50 petaflops of FP4 performance per chip. Nvidia claims that a full rack of these will deliver over 3.6 exaflops of performance—that's more than three times what's possible on existing Blackwell hardware.