NVIDIA unveils the Blackwell GPU platform
Confirmed
Importance: major (4 of 5)The takeaway
At GTC 2024, NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell architecture (B200, GB200 NVL72 rack), a dual-die GPU designed for trillion-parameter model training and inference, succeeding Hopper.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- Major (4 of 5)
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
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Key facts
- Announced 18 March 2024 at GTC
- 208 billion transistors across two dies
- GB200 NVL72 rack connects 72 Blackwell GPUs via NVLink
- Volume shipments ramped from late 2024 into 2025
What happened
NVIDIA announced its next-generation AI accelerator and rack-scale systems, with all major clouds as launch customers.
Why it matters
Blackwell racks became the building block of 2025’s gigawatt-scale AI datacenters.
Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 1 primary, 1 reaction
Primary
- NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing (NVIDIA Newsroom)nvidianews.nvidia.com, official
Reactions
- Wikipedia: Blackwell (microarchitecture)en.wikipedia.org, discussion
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