Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sent shockwaves through the tech world, declaring that his team has developed “several new chips the world has never seen before.”
In an exclusive interview with South Korea’s The Korea Economic Daily (Hankyung) published February 18, 2026, Huang made the bold statement following an informal dinner with SK Hynix engineers in Santa Clara, California. The gathering at 99 Chicken restaurant celebrated the two companies’ deep collaboration on next-generation AI memory and processors.
“Nothing is easy because all technologies are at their limits,” Huang told reporters. “But when teams like this come together, nothing is impossible.”
He specifically pointed to Nvidia’s upcoming GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2026), scheduled for March 16–19 in San Jose, promising: “At next month’s GTC 2026, we’ll unveil a chip that will surprise the world.”
The comments build on Nvidia’s CES 2026 reveal of the Vera Rubin platform — the successor to the record-breaking Blackwell architecture. Vera Rubin will leverage SK Hynix’s forthcoming HBM4 memory, expected to deliver massive gains in bandwidth and capacity for trillion-parameter AI models. Industry watchers anticipate full production of Rubin GPUs in the second half of 2026, followed by Rubin Ultra in 2027.
Huang framed the announcement within a larger vision, calling current AI infrastructure spending “only at the starting point of the largest project in human history.” He dismissed any talk of an AI bubble, emphasizing sustained multi-trillion-dollar investment across chips, systems, and software.
The Nvidia-SK Hynix partnership was highlighted as a “one giant team” effort centered on HBM4 and Vera Rubin. Huang praised the joint engineering work, noting that overcoming physical limits in power, heat, and interconnects requires exactly this level of co-design.
Analysts expect GTC 2026 to feature deeper details on Rubin variants, new networking silicon, and possibly entirely new categories of AI accelerators. With Nvidia’s annual revenue already exceeding $100 billion and data-center growth showing no signs of slowing, the March event is shaping up as the most anticipated tech showcase of 2026.