Jensen Huang spent a portion of his Computex keynote reading out a guest list. Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Oracle, the Nvidia chief executive told the audience in Taipei on Monday, are among the first big users of Vera, the company’s new in-house processor.
Nvidia, a firm that built its empire on graphics chips, would now like to be known for a CPU as well.
Vera is the successor to Grace, Nvidia’s previous data-centre processor, though the company is positioning it as a ground-up redesign rather than an iteration.
It is built around 88 of Nvidia’s own “Olympus” cores, a departure from the off-the-shelf Arm Neoverse cores that powered Grace, and the company says it is now in full production.
The pitch is that Vera is a CPU designed for the age of AI agents, software that plans and executes tasks rather than simply answering a prompt. Nvidia claims the chip completes those agentic workloads faster than the x86 processors made by Intel and AMD, and pairs the cores with up to 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth.
