A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); But beyond that, and a mountain of marketing about how it'll be the best CPU for everything AI, Vera's inner workings have largely remained a mystery until recently. The second, and more contentious, is as a host for AI agents, which, unlike the large language models (LLMs) that power them, don't actually run on GPUs.From what we gather, much of Vera's core architecture is predicated on quashing pipeline and execution bottlenecks in order to make it more effective in these roles. But before we dive into Nvidia's Olympus core, let's revisit the chip itself.Monolithic compute, multi-die memory and I/O Here's a quick refresher on Vera's construction.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); But beyond that, and a mountain of marketing about how it'll be the best CPU for everything AI, Vera's inner workings have largely remained a
- ▪The second, and more contentious, is as a host for AI agents, which, unlike the large language models (LLMs) that power them, don't actually run on GPUs.From what we gather, much of Vera's core architecture is predicated on quashing pipelin
- ▪But before we dive into Nvidia's Olympus core, let's revisit the chip itself.Monolithic compute, multi-die memory and I/O Here's a quick refresher on Vera's construction.
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