NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang’s, SIGGRAPH 2024 Keynote Might Be The First Appearance of Consumer-Grade Blackwell GPUs

SIGGRAPH 2024 will host NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, as the opening keynote speaker, talking about "Graphics for the New Computing Revolution".

SIGGRAPH is the place to talk about the latest innovations in computer graphics and NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, will be delivering a keynote during the event to talk about the new revolution in the compute graphics segment.

SIGGRAPH just announced its entire speaker list for the keynote that will take place on the 29th of July (Monday). Among the list is NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, who has been on a celebrity run from GTC, to Computex and the next stop seems to be SIGGRAPH. Following are the full details on Jensen & his keynote highlights:

Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served since its inception as president, chief executive officer, and a member of the board of directors. Huang has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is a recipient of the Semiconductor Industry Association’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award; IEEE Founder’s Medal; the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award; and honorary doctorate degrees from National Chiao Tung University, National Taiwan University, and Oregon State University. He has been named the world’s best CEO by The Economist and Harvard Business Review, as well as Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year and one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people. He holds a BSEE degree from Oregon State University and an MSEE degree from Stanford.

Jensen’s SIGGRAPH 2024 Keynote Presentation takes place Monday, 29 July.

In this fireside chat, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang will discuss how generative AI and accelerated computing are transforming industries such as manufacturing and creating new opportunities for innovation and growth. The convergence of AI and advanced computing, from AI PCs to AI factories to digital twins, is driving this transformation.

Jensen will speak about the impact of robotics and AI in industrial digitization, illustrating how industry sectors are adopting autonomous operations and building city-scale digital twins to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Last year at SIGGRAPH 2023, NVIDIA announced a host of RTX Ada Workstation GPUs along with an update to the Hopper family in the form of GH200 which is now shipping to its very first customers and was even published within the MLPerf Training benchmarks yesterday. The scope of SIGGRAPH can be vast but it is up to NVIDIA to decide whether they want to go grand or keep it simple for now as the company is expected to introduce its next-gen Blackwell consumer GPUs around late 2024.

It may be possible that we may see a teaser of what's to come next as NVIDIA has updated its client / AI side roadmap which lists chips such as Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra. However, its GPU roadmap for consumers hasn't seen any major updates in years besides the two "Ada Next" & "Ada Next Next" listings in last year's roadmap. So it might be prime time to either update the GPU roadmap for consumers or give us a taste of what to expect from the next workstation-oriented RTX offerings.

Besides that, NVIDIA is also going to talk about its innovations within the computer graphics market where RTX has been the premiere technology, powering next-gen gaming and content creation wonders.