"Move over Intel and AMD - Meta is among the first hyperscalers to deploy Nvidia's standalone CPUs, the two companies revealed on Tuesday. Meta has already deployed Nvidia's Grace processors in CPU-only systems at scale and is working with the GPU slinger to field its upcoming Vera CPUs beginning next year. Apart from a few scientific institutions, Nvidia's nearly three-year-old Grace CPUs have predominantly shipped as part of so-called "Superchips" which featured integrated Hopper and Blackwell GPUs onboard."
"As a refresher, Nvidia's Grace CPUs are equipped with 72 Arm Neoverse V2 cores clocked at up to 3.35 GHz. The chip is available in a standalone config with up to 480 GB of memory or two of the processors can be combined with up to 960 GB of LPDDR5x memory to form the Grace-CPU Superchip. LPDDR5x isn't something you typically see in server platforms, but offers several advantages in terms of space and bandwidth."
Meta has deployed Nvidia's standalone Grace CPUs at scale and is preparing to field Vera CPUs beginning next year. Grace previously shipped mainly as part of Grace-Hopper Superchips paired with integrated GPUs, and Meta plans to deploy millions of GB300 and Vera Rubin Superchips for recommender and other datacenter workloads. Meta is now using Grace-only systems for general-purpose and agentic AI tasks that do not require GPUs, reporting roughly 2x performance-per-watt on backend workloads. Grace CPUs feature 72 Arm Neoverse V2 cores up to 3.35 GHz and support large LPDDR5x memory configurations.
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