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NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, Vera CPU & NemoClaw (GTC 2026)

NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, Vera CPU & NemoClaw (GTC 2026)

Key Questions

What is NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform?

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform features 3x MoE, HBM4, and Astera integration for GTC 2026. It includes Vera CPU with 88 cores and NVL72 connectivity.

How did Marvell's Q4 earnings relate to NVIDIA?

Marvell reported $2.2B in Q4 revenue, up 22% due to NVLink and XPUs. NVIDIA's $2B investment strengthens their AI infrastructure partnership.

What drove Lumentum's revenue growth?

Lumentum achieved $665M revenue, up 85%, from AI optics demand for data centers. They supply lasers, transceivers, and optical switches.

What is NVIDIA's FY26 financial outlook?

NVIDIA projects $216B in FY26 capex and $68B revenue, up 73%. This reflects massive AI infrastructure investments.

What is HF's Ultra-Scale GPU playbook?

Hugging Face's playbook emphasizes parallelism for LLM clusters, covering data, tensor, and pipeline methods. It guides ultra-scale GPU deployments.

How does NVIDIA's Marvell alliance expand?

NVIDIA invested $2B in Marvell, extending AI platforms from data centers to telecoms via NVLink Fusion. It enables rack-scale custom AI development.

What is Astera Labs' role in AI?

Astera Labs provides the 'nervous system' for AI with products like Aries Smart DSP Retimer. They support high-speed connectivity in data centers.

What is Firmus' valuation and backing?

Firmus, an AI datacenter builder backed by NVIDIA, reached a $5.5B valuation. Known as 'Southgate', it focuses on Asia AI infrastructure.

Firmus $5.5B Nvidia-backed AI DCs; Marvell/Lumentum growth; Rubin 3x MoE/HBM4/Astera; Vera NVL72; HF GPU playbook; Intel Terafab Musk collab.

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Updated Apr 8, 2026