Nvidia Designs Its First Fully Custom Server CPU Core
The 88-core Vera chip splits work across 176 threads via Nvidia's own SMT and ships through five OEMs by late 2026.
- The Olympus core is Nvidia's first fully custom data-center CPU, built on Arm v9.2.
- Vera reaches 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth with up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X.
- Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro will sell Vera-based servers in H2 2026.
Why it matters: Nvidia's first in-house CPU core ties every AI factory built on Vera to a single vendor.