Tuesday, January 27th 2026 NVIDIA Offers Vera CPU as a Standalone Competitor to Intel's Xeon and AMD's EPYC Processors by AleksandarK Today, 04:13 Discuss (1 ) NVIDIA's integration of AI systems now extends beyond GPUs with generic Arm CPUs. The company is introducing its high-performance Vera CPUs as a standalone product, marking its first entry as a competitor to Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server-grade CPUs. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang confirmed this new venture in an interview with Bloomberg, stating, For the very first time, we're going to be offering Vera CPUs. Vera is such an incredible CPU. We're going to offer Vera CPUs as a standalone part of the infrastructure. You can now run your computing stack not only on NVIDIA GPUs but also on NVIDIA CPUs. Vera is completely revolutionary... Coreweave will have to act quickly if they want to be the first to implement Vera CPUs. We haven't announced any of our CPU design wins yet, but there will be many. The Vera CPU is equipped with 88 custom Armv9.2 Olympus cores that utilize Spatial Multithreading technology, allowing it to handle 176 threads through physical resource partitioning. These custom cores support native FP8 processing, enabling some AI workloads to be executed directly on the CPU with 6x128-bit SVE2 implementation. The chip offers 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth and supports up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory, making it ideal for memory-intensive computing tasks. However, with the CPU now being offered as a standalone solution, it is unclear whether there will be any external memory options like DDR5 RDIMMs, or if the CPU will rely solely on the PCB-soldered LPDDR5X. A second-generation Scalable Coherency Fabric provides 3.4 TB/s of bisection bandwidth, connecting the cores across a unified monolithic die and eliminating the latency issues common in chiplet architectures. Additionally, NVIDIA has integrated a second-generation NVLink Chip-to-Chip technology, delivering up to 1.8 TB/s of coherent bandwidth for external Rubin GPUs. Source: Ed Ludlow on X Related News Tags: AI AMD Arm EPYC Intel Jensen Huang LPDDR5X NVIDIA NVLink PCB Rubin SVE2 Vera Vera CPU Xeon Feb 25th 2025 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Cards Spotted with Missing ROPs, NVIDIA Confirms the Issue, Multiple Vendors Affected (519) Sep 18th 2025 NVIDIA Buys $5B Worth of Intel, RTX iGPUs Coming to x86, Shares up 25% (256) Jul 23rd 2025 DDR6 Memory Arrives in 2027 with 8,800-17,600 MT/s Speeds (174) Sep 10th 2025 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-Series SUPER GPUs Could Arrive at CES 2026 (69) Sep 3rd 2025 NVIDIA Discrete GPU Market Share Dominance Expands to 94%, Notes Report (237) Sep 8th 2025 AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage Over x86 (97) Jan 16th 2026 NVIDIA Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next (210) Jul 29th 2025 NVIDIA to Debut GeForce RTX 50-series SUPER GPUs by Christmas (112) Sep 3rd 2025 AMD Zen 6 Processors to Use TSMC 2 nm Node for CCDs, 3 nm for IOD (66) Sep 29th 2025 March-April Release of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series SUPER Lineup, Possible CES Reveal (73) Add your own 1 on NVIDIA Offers Vera CPU as a Standalone Competitor to Intel's Xeon and AMD's EPYC Processors #1 Space Lynx Astronaut Does this mean Nvidia may make consumer CPU's in a few years? Comparing it to EPYC cpu as the article does, means it's x86 based right?
