Nvidia founder Huang unveils new tech for gamers, creators at CES 2025

Associated Press

Las Vegas: In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang stood on stage and marvelled over the crisp real-time computer graphics displayed on the screen behind him. He watched as a darkhaired woman walked through ornate gilded double doors and took in the rays of light that poured in through stained glass windows. “The amount of geometry that you saw was absolutely insane,” Huang told an audience of thousands at CES 2025 Monday night.

“It would have been impossible without artificial intelligence.” The chipmaker and AI darling unveiled its Ge- Force RTX 50 Series desktop and laptop GPUs its most advanced consumer graphics processor units for gamers, creators and developers. The tech is designed for use on both desktop and laptop computers. Ahead of Huang's speech, Nvidia stock climbed 3.4 per cent to top its record set in November. Nvidia and other AI stocks keep climbing even as criticism rises that their stock prices have already shot too high, too fast.

Despite worries about a potential bubble, the industry continues to talk up its potential. Huang said the GPUs, which use the company's next-generation artificial intelligence chip Blackwell, can deliver breakthroughs in AI-driven rendering. “Blackwell, the engine of AI, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creatives,” Huang said, adding that Blackwell “is the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago.”