# A deep dive into Nvidia’s Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/a-deep-dive-into-nvidias-vera-cpu-and-the-olympus-cores-that-power-it/
- Published: 2026-08-01T09:02:00+00:00
- Original publisher: The Register
- Original article: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/01/nvidias-vera-cpu-and-the-olympus-cores-that-power-it-deep-dive/5282056
- Topics: Americas, Gadgets, Technology, World

## Key points

- Nvidia’s Vera is its first fully custom standalone CPU.
- It targets AI infrastructure and AI-agent hosting.
- Dual-socket systems offer 176 cores and 3TB memory.

## Summary

Nvidia has detailed Vera, its first fully custom CPU, marking a direct challenge to Intel and AMD in cloud and datacentre computing. The Arm-based processor is intended both to manage GPUs in forthcoming Vera Rubin AI systems and to run AI-agent workloads, with its design focused on reducing processing bottlenecks. Several major cloud providers, including Alibaba, Meta, Oracle and CoreWeave, have already committed to deploying it.

A Vera chip contains 88 Armv9.2 Olympus cores and 176 threads, supports up to 1.5TB of LPDDR5X memory, and uses a monolithic 3nm compute die alongside separate memory and I/O chiplets. Nvidia’s dual-socket Vera CPU Superchip combines 176 cores, 3TB of memory and 1.8TB/s of bidirectional NVLink connectivity, while providing 2.4TB/s of aggregate memory bandwidth. Nvidia says a liquid-cooled rack could contain up to 128 Superchips, equating to 22,528 cores and 384TB of memory.

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