Nvidia unveils a liquid-cooled server rack with 256 Vera CPUs, each of which features 88 custom Olympus cores and LPDDR5X memory for up to 1.2 TB/s of bandwidth
GTC Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems.
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Return of the CPU is coming...Agents will consume CPU capacity at insane clips!
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NVIDIA making the case that agentic AI needs massive CPU capacity alongside GPUs. They showed 400K CPU cores running sandbox execution alongside 12K GPUs for RL training. Vera is the answer: 🧠 88 cores / 176 threads 🧠 1.5x IPC over Grace 🧠 3x memory bandwidth per core vs x86 [ima…
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NVIDIA Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI