Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors
GTC Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems. But unlike its NVL72 racks, this one isn't powered by GPUs or even Groq LPUs, but rather 256 of its custom Vera CPUs.
The system is designed to support AI training techniques like reinforcement learning as well as agentic AI frameworks and services that can't run on GPUs alone.
"Agents don't operate on GPUs alone. They need CPUs in order to do their work, whether we're training agentic models ...
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