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NVIDIA's First CPU for AI Agents, Vera, Now Shipping

NVIDIA's first CPU designed for AI agents, Vera, is now shipping at scale. The company's VP Ian Buck is personally delivering Vera CPU systems to partners across the AI ecosystem, marking a significant milestone in NVIDIA's expansion beyond GPUs.

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NVIDIA Vera CPU Begins Shipping: A Dedicated Processor for the Agentic Era

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NVIDIA's first CPU designed specifically for agentic AI, Vera, has begun volume shipments, with initial systems delivered to AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and leading AI labs.

  • NVIDIA Vera CPU has begun volume shipments, with initial systems delivered to AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI.
  • Vera features 88 custom NVIDIA Olympus cores and 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth, delivering up to 1.8x per-core performance on agentic AI workloads.
  • AWS has received its first Vera CPU server and Vera Rubin GPU, marking an expansion of the 16-year partnership between the two companies.
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Delivery Progress: From Labs to Cloud Giants

On August 27, 2026, NVIDIA announced that its first CPU designed specifically for agentic AI, Vera, has begun volume shipments. Ian Buck, NVIDIA's Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC, personally delivered Vera CPU systems to several partners, including AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI.

AWS received its first Vera CPU server and Vera Rubin GPU in Seattle, hand-delivered by Ian Buck to AWS Vice President Willem Visser and Vice President of Hardware Engineering Supreeth Sheshardi. Earlier, in May, NVIDIA had delivered initial Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Oracle Cloud.

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