TAIPEI - Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) announced Saturday the launch of its Vera CPU, designed for artificial intelligence agent workloads, with full production now underway. The $5.11 trillion semiconductor giant continues to expand its product portfolio beyond GPUs as it solidifies its position in the industry.
The company stated the processor delivers 1.8x faster task completion compared with x86 CPUs for workloads including agentic AI, reinforcement learning and data processing. The chip features 88 Olympus cores and an LPDDR5X memory subsystem providing up to 1.2TB/s of bandwidth.
Vera serves as the CPU for standalone Vera servers, Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and Vera BlueField-4 STX AI storage platforms. The processor connects to GPUs through second-generation NVLink-C2C interconnect technology, offering up to 1.8TB/s of coherent bandwidth between CPU and GPU.
Organizations planning to adopt Vera include Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, ByteDance, CoreWeave and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. NYSE stated it will use Vera CPUs in collaboration with Redpanda and HPE to scale capacity while optimizing latency for its market infrastructure, which processes over 1.1 trillion messages daily.
The Vera launch comes as Nvidia maintains exceptional financial performance, with revenue growth of 71% over the last twelve months and a return on assets of 83%. According to Bond.az analysis, the stock currently trades below its Fair Value.
"Scaling compute is an important accelerant for the growth of models," said James Bradbury, head of compute at Anthropic. "We're excited to see Vera emerge as a promising part of the ecosystem when solving for agentic workloads."
System manufacturers building Vera CPU systems include Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro, along with ASUS, Compal, Foxconn, GIGABYTE, Pegatron, Quanta Cloud Technology, Wistron and Wiwynn. Nvidia reported nearly 2.5 million shipments of its Grace CPUs to date. Vera systems will be available from system builders and cloud partners starting this fall.
Cloud service providers planning to deploy Vera CPUs include Akamai, Cloudflare, Lambda, Nebius, Nscale and Together AI.
