Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes NYT: Technology By:Tripp Mickle 6 January 2026 at 12:02 At the CES conference, Jensen Huang, the companyβs chief executive, said the more efficient and powerful chip would begin shipping later this year. Β© Eric Lee for The New York TimesNvidiaβs Vera Rubin on display at a company conference in October. The new chip is named for an astronomer whose research supported the existence of dark matter.