This article is part of the VB Lab / Nvidia GTC insight series. NVIDIA is hosting another of its trademark GTC events next week, and many are wondering what CEO Jensen Huang might be cooking up in his November 9th keynote. Judging by a few of his past keynotes, we think it's safe to assume that he'll focus on five major areas. Accelerated computing: This has long been NVIDIA's stock-in-trade -- the combination of GPUs and specialized software delivering outsized performance in a variety of domains. Gaming is an obvious example, with recent advances like RTX graphics and DLSS boosting performance and realism.

As usual, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang revealed a ton of news during his keynote at the company's GPU Technology Conference yesterday. There's the new Quadro GV100 GPU, which is based on NVIDIA's Volta architecture and will power its new RTX ray tracing technology. The company also revealed its Drive Constellation system for testing self-driving cars in virtual reality, which will certainly help now that it's pausing real world testing. Finally, NVIDIA made some major announcements around AI: its new DGX-2 "personal supercomputer" is insanely powerful, and it's also partnering with ARM to bring its deep learning technology into upcoming Trillium mobile chips.