Huang holds up two chips while speaking onstage at the GTC conference.
Huang holds up the Blackwell, left, and its predecessor the H100 on the right.
  • Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang unveiled its next-generation chip today.
  • The Blackwell chip, named after statistician David Blackwell, is much faster than its predecessor.
  • The chips will "realize the promise of AI for every industry," he said.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Blackwell chip — a next-generation AI chip succeeding its massively in-demand H100, which has served as a backbone of sorts amid an AI gold rush.