CES 2026: NVIDIA Unveils New Six-Chip Rubin AI Platform

NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang launched the company’s latest six-chip artificial intelligence (AI) computing platform, Rubin, during the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show. Rubin is NVIDIA’s first “extreme co-designed” six-chip AI platform, and the successor to Blackwell. The Rubin GPU itself includes a total of 336 billion transistors, compared to Blackwell’s 208 billion. The six new chips include the NVIDIA Vera CPU and its 88 NVIDIA custom-designed Olympus cores optimized for the next generation of AI factories with full Arm-compatibility. Watch the video to learn more about the new Rubin platform.

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How the Air Force Is Seeding the Future of Collaborative Airpower

Born in the lab and built for scale, the Air Force’s first collaborative combat aircraft mark the opening move in a new era of airpower. Emerging directly from AFRL programs, these modular, low-cost uncrewed platforms reflect a deliberate shift toward rapid iteration, shared architectures, and exponential growth in capability. What begins with two aircraft is designed to evolve into a diverse family of collaborative systems shaping the future fight.

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AIRVUE: Prelude to Self-Flying Aircraft

Before autonomous aircraft take to the skies, they need to learn about their environments to avoid hazards. NASA aeronautics researchers recently developed a camera pod — Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE) — with sensors to help with this challenge. Watch this video to learn more. “Data is the fuel for machine learning,” said Nelson Brown, lead NASA researcher for the AIRVUE project.

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Boeing’s X-37B Is Testing a Quantum Inertial Sensor in Space

In August, the U.S. Space Force launched the eighth mission of Boeing’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission includes the Space Force’s first-ever evaluation of a quantum inertial sensor in space. Watch the video to understand why the Space Force is evaluating the use of space-based quantum sensing.

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This article first appeared in the March, 2026 issue of Aerospace & Defense Technology Magazine.

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