The shift to agentic AI creates a new CPU requirement for the AI factory: fast cores, massive memory bandwidth and the ability to sustain high performance when all cores are active. Initial benchmark results published by Phoronix today show that the NVIDIA Vera CPU meets this need. For this first public look, the benchmark scope was centered on the agentic workloads Vera was designed for in the modern data center. The Vera CPU delivers the throughput AI factories need while optimizing platform power. Eighty-eight NVIDIA custom Olympus cores, 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth and a high-speed, on-chip fabric results in a CPU platform that combines core performance and memory bandwidth in an efficient power envelope. NVIDIA Olympus Delivers Aggressive Performance At the heart of Vera are custom NVIDIA Olympus CPU cores.…