SAN JOSE, California – Nvidia's new Vera data center CPU has entered full production and is expected to be available in the second half of this year.

The company has traditionally paired its Arm CPUs with a GPU, but has shifted to also offer the hardware standalone due to the rise of CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads.

Nvidia first announced plans for a standalone CPU business earlier this year, signing a deal with Meta for deliveries of both current-generation Grace and upcoming Vera. CoreWeave plans to be the first cloud provider to support Vera as a standalone offering.

Other cloud providers set to offer Vera include Oracle, Alibaba, ByteDance, Crusoe, Lambda, Nebius, Nscale, Together.AI, and Vultr.

National laboratories also plan to deploy the CPU, including Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).

Server makers set to support the chip include Aivres, ASRock Rack, ASUS, Compal, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Foxconn, Gigabyte, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Hyve, Inventec, Lenovo, MiTAC, MSI, Pegatron, Quanta Cloud Technology QCT, Supermicro, Wistron, and Wiwynn.

"Vera is arriving at a turning point for AI. As intelligence becomes agentic – capable of reasoning and acting – the importance of the systems orchestrating that work is elevated,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said. “The CPU is no longer simply supporting the model; it’s driving it. With breakthrough performance and energy efficiency, Vera unlocks AI systems that think faster and scale further.”

The chip contains 88 custom Nvidia-designed Olympus cores. Each core can run two tasks, using Nvidia Spatial Multithreading, with physical partitioning. Vera features LPDDR5X memory and delivers up to 1.2 TB/s of bandwidth.

It will be available in both dual and single-socket CPU server configurations.

"The demand for agentic CPUs and the Vera CPU is astonishing, and we're very excited to be bringing to market for all of our partners," Nvidia data center head Ian Buck said.

The company, through its partners, plans to offer a new Vera CPU rack with 256 liquid-cooled Vera CPUs, which it says can sustain more than 22,500 concurrent CPU environments, each running independently at full performance. The MGX modular reference architecture also includes 64 BlueField-4 DPUs and a Spectrum-X Ethernet spine.

The CPU will still be offered tied to a GPU as Vera Rubin.