NVIDIA GTC 2026: Vera Rubin, Gigawatt AI Deals, and What Network Engineers Must Know

NVIDIA GTC 2026 opened today in San Jose with 39,000 attendees and a clear message: AI infrastructure is entering the gigawatt era, and the network fabric connecting GPU clusters is now the single biggest differentiator between a functional AI factory and an expensive pile of silicon. The Vera Rubin platform — six co-designed chips delivering 260TB/s of rack-level bandwidth — rewrites the playbook for data center networking at every layer from NIC to spine switch. ...

March 16, 2026 · 10:27 AM MST · News & Trends