The primary focus of this release seems to be adding support for two major Xbox games alongside the new extraction game Mistfall Hunter.

NVIDIA's next generation of graphics cards, under the "Blackwell-Next" name, began their integration into the Linux kernel some time ago. The latest set of patches now includes updates for handling Compute Express Link (CXL). This particular patch is intriguing because it refers to the next generation of NVIDIA GPUs with the "Blackwell-Next" architecture, even though NVIDIA has publicly confirmed the codenames for its upcoming GPU architectures multiple times. From the "Blackwell" generation, we have seen another variant called "Blackwell Ultra" in the B300 series. However, the next-generation architecture has been publicly confirmed to be called "Rubin." Therefore, it is unclear why NVIDIA's engineers are referring to the next generation GPU design as "Blackwell-Next," given that the codenames have been public for some time.

Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train

Chinese cloud firms are reportedly testing more than 300 Vera servers overseas.

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"But ultimately our customers, our partners don't want to buy computers, they want to build AI factories. All of the CPUs until now were created for people. We were the users, we were the users. We were the renters. This is CPU for the agents (AI/LLMs). All the CPUs in the past we built for humans. This CPU is built for agents. And these agents are going to be using the CPUs with very little patience. There'll be a lot more agents then there are people. And then the agents are very impatient."

• Jensen Huang; CEO of NVIDIA, Computex or GTC 2026.

Nvidia's new chips will power laptop workstations and mini desktop PCs at first.

Nvidia's chief executive said on Wednesday the ​chip company plans to invest around $150 billion a year in Taiwan, terming it the "epicentre" of the AI revolution ‌and predicting it will be the world's tech manufacturing hub for a long time.

Amid news of NVIDIA retiring the legacy Win32 Control Panel application for its graphics driver with its latest GeForce 610.47 WHQL Game Ready driver, an important new development flew under the radar. The driver apparently introduces profile settings related to DLSS Neural Rendering that's part of the next-generation DLSS 5. Warkratos, over at Guru3D Forums discovered three new DLSS NR (Neural Rendering) and DLSS NR SL (Neural Rendering Streamlined) settings in Profile Inspector—"Enable DLSS NR Override," "Enable DLSS NR SL Override," and "Override DLSS NR Presets."

It's running very close to AMD's EPYC, which is incredible for a first-generation custom server core from NVIDIA.

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$2 million for memory alone.

Earlier this year, we learned that NVIDIA began selling its "Vera" CPU generation as a standalone solution, offering hyperscalers and cloud providers a CPU ready for the agentic AI era. It appears that the "Vera" CPU generation could propel NVIDIA to become one of the largest CPU makers, just behind AMD and Intel in their own game. According to the company's own estimates, NVIDIA is projected to sell about $20 billion worth of "Vera" CPUs, unlocking a $200 billion Total Addressable Market (TAM) with its standalone offerings. As NVIDIA partners with every major hyperscaler to supply "Vera" CPU racks, we are starting to see many deployments across infrastructure providers for their own use cases and offering it to third-party customers. This approach allows NVIDIA to tap into a massive market, potentially propelling it to become one of the largest CPU makers.

NVIDIA reported its Q1 2026 earnings with revenue reaching $81.6 billion, setting a new record. Amid these record-breaking results, the company announced a change in how it reports revenue from its GeForce RTX gaming GPUs. According to NVIDIA CFO Colette Kress, the standalone GeForce RTX GPU gaming revenue is no longer separately listed and is now integrated under the "Edge Computing" segment. This segment "highlights devices for agentic and physical AI, including PCs, game consoles, workstations, AI-RAN base stations, robotics, and automotive." The last standalone report for gaming revenue was in Q4 2025, where NVIDIA posted $3.7 billion. Now, under the "Edge Computing" category, NVIDIA reported $6.4 billion, an increase of 10% from the previous quarter and 29% from the same period last year, when this segment had a different name.

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GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.

The Nvidia CEO seems to feel that claims of AI's job-killing potential have been greatly exaggerated.

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NVIDIA's DLSS 5 announcement trailer is currently offline on YouTube due to a copyright infringement claim from an unlikely source.

The NVIDIA App update today introduced some interesting features, such as DLSS 4.5 dynamic multi-frame generation and a 6x mode. Additionally, the app now includes a new beta version of NVIDIA Auto Shader Compilation (ASC). This feature takes DirectX 12 shaders from games and quietly compiles them while the system is idle or not running any graphically intensive tasks. Typically, when you start a game, you have to wait for all assets to load and shaders to compile before you can begin playing. However, with ASC, NVIDIA aims to shorten this process by pre-compiling shaders to reduce loading times and, interestingly, decrease in-game stuttering, which can occur when shaders don't load properly. NVIDIA states that this feature is opt-in within the NVIDIA App and can be enabled by navigating to the Graphics Tab > Global Settings > Shader Cache. Once in the menu, users can access a range of settings, including the option to turn on Auto Shader Compilation.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman in a Monday podcast interview that he believed AGI had been achieved, then seemed to slightly walk back the claim.

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Nvidia has revealed DLSS 5, that utitlizes an AI model to render lighting and other effects, to immediate backlash for its inconsistency.