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NVIDIA Officially Launches "Vera" Enterprise CPU: Features 88 Custom "Olympus" Cores and Standalone Server Options Following its initial teaser in 2024 and continuous industry anticipation, NVIDIA has officially announced the commercial availability of its next-generation server processor, Vera . Named after the pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin , the new chip represents NVIDIA’s second-generation data center CPU, succeeding the Grace architecture (launched in 2021), which has achieved nearly 2.5 million unit sales globally. While engineered to form an optimized superchip pairing with NVIDIA’s upcoming Rubin GPU , the Vera processor introduces a major shift in NVIDIA's hardware ecosystem by offering broad deployment flexibility. Under the Hood: The "Olympus" Core Architecture The architectural foundation of Vera relies on 88 custom proprietary cores , codenamed Olympus . NVIDIA stated that the Olympus microarchitecture was strategically devel...

NVIDIA Commences Production Shipments of "Vera" CPU: Exec Hand-Delivers First Agentic Silicon to OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Oracle Marking a monumental shift in the semiconductor landscape, NVIDIA has officially transitioned its highly anticipated next-generation architecture from lab announcement to live production deployment. In a high-profile gesture reminiscent of the company’s earliest AI deliveries, Ian Buck , NVIDIA’s Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing (HPC), personally hand-delivered the inaugural batch of NVIDIA Vera CPU systems directly to the Silicon Valley headquarters of the world's most prominent AI laboratories. The Architecture Behind the "Agentic CPU Moment" The standalone Vera CPU represents NVIDIA's first fully custom data center processor, engineered specifically to power the host infrastructure of the upcoming NVIDIA Vera Rubin computing platform. As frontier AI models move away from static text responses tow...