The first true Nvidia CPU has been benchmarked, beats everything—but only in Nvidia-sanctioned tests - PC Gamer

Nvidia's first fully in-house CPU, the Vera CPU, has been benchmarked and shows impressive performance, outperforming existing x86 and ARM chips. However, the tests were conducted under Nvidia-sanctio... Read original →

Nvidia’s in-house Olympus-core Vera CPU, while dominating sanctioned AI workloads, reveals a strategic play for vertical integration—not general-purpose computing supremacy. Technically, its 88-core ARM design pressures TSMC’s 3nm capacity toward HPC and marginalizes third-party ARM server vendors like Ampere. Geopolitically, U.S. export controls are pushing Azure and GCP to diversify beyond U.S. chips, raising supply chain costs. AMD and Intel may counter with RISC-V alliances to defend x86’s dominance in general compute. Over the next 18 months, unless the consumer-targeted N1x adopts Olympus cores, Nvidia’s PC ambitions remain limited—but success here could redefine datacenter architectures around tightly coupled CPU-GPU stacks, accelerating the industry’s shift toward proprietary, workload-optimized silicon.