Nvidia's Jensen Huang says it will ‘surprise the world’ with a new mystery chip — here's what to expect

Nvidia GTC 2026 is gearing up to be quite the show, with CEO Jensen Huang now hyping up the annual AI conference with "several new chips the world has never seen before." But what chips can we expect?

During an interview with media site Korean Economic Daily, Huang expressed that GTC 2026, taking place from March 16, will unveil "a chip that will surprise the world." While there's no indication of what this chipset could be, it's easy to think the upcoming Nvidia N1X for PCs is a likely candidate. However, this may not be the case.

A mystery chip to 'surprise the world'

Jensen Huang holding an Nvidia RTX GPU. — (Image credit: Getty Images)

During the interview, Huang notes that "nothing is easy because all technologies are at their limits," but with the partnership between Nvidia and SK Hynix, one of the three semiconductor companies, "nothing is impossible."

This only makes Huang's statement of revealing "several new chips the world has never seen before" at GTC 2026 more bold, and while the long-anticipated Nvidia N1X and N1 chips for desktops and laptops are a good contender, looking to take on Intel's Panther Lake CPU lineup (especially in terms of integrated graphics performance), we've heard N1X is rumored to be delayed.

As with past GTC events, Nvidia generally focuses on the expansion of AI-driven software and chipsets, and we've heard about Team Green's new Vera CPUs and Rubin GPU that offers 5x more power than Blackwell to drive the AI data centers of the future at CES 2026.

Nothing is easy because all technologies are at their limits
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia

This indicates we could see its new Rubin GPUs for AI take the spotlight at the show, as they've been in full production as of January 2026, as announced by Huang during CES 2026. However, Nvidia could throw a curveball by revealing its Feynman microarchitecture for next-gen GPUs.

That's considering Huang stating, "this team has worked incredibly hard to meet the great challenge of Vera Rubin and HBM4," referring to SK Hynix and its development of HBM4 (High Bandwidth Memory 4), designed for AI data centers and cutting-edge computing.

This remains to be seen, of course, but if Nvidia is set to unveil a world-surprising chip, then we can expect Team Green to bring the next evolution of implementing AI in the entire tech industry.

A glimpse of RTX 60-series?

RTX 5070 vs RTX 5070 Ti — (Image credit: Future)

With reports of Nvidia not releasing a new gaming GPU this year, this not only pushes back RTX 50 Super GPUs, but also RTX 60-series. And this is due to the RAM crisis. For consumers, this is disappointing, and having a new chip for AI data centers likely being the big surprise at GTC 2026 isn't ideal.

However, consider this. Nvidia Blackwell architecture (what you'll find in the latest RTX 50-series GPUs) was first designed for data centers, and then for consumer GPUs, around a year or two later. With this in mind, with the developments of Rubin now in place, we may see how this architecture comes to Team Green's next-gen graphics cards.

For now, we'll have to wait and see what Huang has up his (leather) sleeve, and it won't be much longer, seeing as Nvidia GTC 2026 is kicking off on March 16. Don't expect all-new RTX GPUs or N1X, but do expect a big reveal that could deliver a taste of Nvidia's consumer graphics cards lineup down the line.

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