Nvidia’s GPU Expertise Convention (GTC) takes place in San Jose subsequent week, not terribly removed from San Franciso concurrently internet hosting the Sport Developer’s Convention within the coronary heart of town. Regardless of geographic proximity, the subject material of each conferences will doubtless be a world aside, as Nvidia CEO Jen Huang appears to be aiming for much less of a speak about what Nvidia will do for gaming and extra what it is going to do for AI.
In Nvidia’s GTC session catalog, the keynote is described succinctly: “Don’t miss this keynote from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang. He’ll share how NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform is driving the subsequent wave in AI, digital twins, cloud applied sciences, and sustainable computing.”
With the latest launch of the 5090, it is sensible that Nvidia can be considerably mum about new graphics capabilities for the most recent video games. At this level, enhancements are prone to err extra towards an incrementalist sport of inches than a large revolution each few years. However it does point out that Nvidia is conscious which viewers is buttering their bread proper now and is aiming their focus towards that.
Furthermore, Nvidia and Huang doubtless really feel they desperately must win again the religion of the AI market. The image of AI has modified dramatically since DeepSeek was revealed a couple of months in the past, making Nvidia’s argument of being the most effective requiring costly {hardware} straight from the supply really feel a bit shaky and that feeling was born out by the inventory market.
Nvidia goes into GTC searching for a win and it’s extra prone to get that from AI fanatics and traders than avid gamers. This isn’t to say the corporate is not going to have any new details about tips on how to get the most effective graphics out of all of 2025 and past’s shiny new titles, however the core focus lies elsewhere for the keynote no less than.