GTC25: twenty-five thousand people and the first Quantum Day

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NVIDIA GTC25

Name
NVIDIA GTC 2025
Dates
17 to 21 March 2025
Venue
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, with the keynote at the SAP Center
Host
NVIDIA Corporation
Programme
nvidianews.nvidia.com

Trip 16 to 21 March 2025 · Written up 21 March 2025 · Last expanded 29 September 2026

The second of three Marches in San Jose: Bill Dally interviewing Yann LeCun, Jensen’s exaflop in a single rack, and the first Quantum Day. The argument across all three years is in the combined write-up; the photographs from March 2025 live here.

Photographs

Crowd queuing outside the SAP Center for the GTC keynote
GTC25: the keynote queue at the SAP Center.
Jensen Huang on stage in front of a row of server racks with chips laid out on a table
Jensen with the racks. The keynote as hardware unboxing.
Keynote slide plotting Blackwell against Hopper on tokens per second per megawatt
Blackwell against Hopper, tokens per megawatt. The only axis that matters now.
Keynote slide announcing NVIDIA Photonics co-packaged optics switches
Co-packaged optics. Photonics arrives at the switch.
Panel on stage titled Quantum Computing Where We Are and Where We're Headed
GTC25’s first Quantum Day. Where we are and where we are headed, by the people who would know.
A sign reading Get Your GeForce RTX 5080 or 5090 with a price list
The sign at the head of the line that beat me.

Links

The programme, and the write-up when it exists. To be added.

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This page is not finished, and is not meant to be. I add photographs, people and links as I dig them out, so it keeps growing after publication. Why the whole site works this way is on the colophon.

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