NVIDIA Vera CPU: Purpose-Built Agentic AI Processor Announced at GTC — 164pts, 98cmts

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Announced March 16 at GTC, the Vera CPU features 88 custom Olympus cores with LPDDR5X memory at 1.2 TB/s bandwidth; paired with Rubin GPUs via NVLink-C2C, coherent bandwidth reaches 1.8 TB/s. A full rack sustains 22,500+ concurrent CPU environments targeting agentic inference, RL training, and AI coding orchestration — NVIDIA claims 2× efficiency and 50% faster throughput vs. traditional rack-scale CPUs. Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Alibaba, ByteDance, Meta, and Oracle Cloud committed as adopters; H2 2026 availability.