NVIDIA has hand-delivered the first Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Oracle Cloud. The Vera CPU is NVIDIA's first custom processor designed specifically for agentic AI workloads.
Vera is NVIDIA's first custom CPU for agentic AI
Vera features 88 custom Olympus cores and supports 176 threads with NVIDIA Spatial Multi-Threading. It uses LPDDR5X memory and offers 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth. The CPU can support up to 1.5 TB of system memory and includes a 1.8 TB/s NVLink-C2C coherent memory interconnect.
NVIDIA states that Vera delivers 50% faster per-core performance under full load compared to the previous Grace CPU. The company also claims 2x improvement in data processing, compression, and CI/CD performance versus Grace.
Vera is the successor to the Grace CPU and will be used both as a standalone processor and as part of the Vera Rubin platform. NVIDIA's Ian Buck personally delivered the first units to the four partners.
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