Nvidia has begun pitching its new Vera server CPU to Chinese cloud customers. Potential shipments for the Arm-based processor could start as early as August 2026. The move aims to maintain business relationships in China while navigating U.S. export restrictions on high-end AI GPUs.
The Vera CPU is an 88-core processor built on a 3nm manufacturing process. Nvidia designed the chip specifically to handle AI inference and agentic workloads.
This development highlights the increasing adoption of Arm architecture within global data centers. It represents a major opportunity for Arm to gain market share in a Chinese server sector historically dominated by x86-based chips.