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Nvidia's next-generation data center CPU for agentic workloads: single 88-core SKU, monolithic compute die, spatial multithreading, LPDDR5X via SOCAMM2.
AMD rose 32% and Intel 21% in a month as Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots ran long-running AI agents on CPUs. The cash behind the move depends on how many agent sessions run and whose processors they run on.
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OpenAI runs its Jalapeño ASIC on AMD EPYC Turin hosts with 1.5TB of memory each, chosen over Nvidia's Vera because Vera is less mature. Richard Ho tied the call to one program's schedule and a first-generation chip, so it says little about x86 against Arm.
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NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform, launched September 28, makes its OpenShell runtime available now while its Sentry hardware watchdog has no release date. Sentry's promised millisecond stop has no independent test yet, so the hardware half rests on NVIDIA's word.
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The 20 percent per-core margin over Nvidia's Vera is the same claim AMD made in July. The detail now published behind it rests on a 256-core part down-cored to 96, a 600W budget, and two different major GCC releases.
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NVIDIA is investing $2 billion in Amsterdam-based Nebius, and the partnership covers more than 5 gigawatts of deployment by the end of 2030 along with early access to the Rubin platform.
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JPMorgan calls the cut content optimization as a coping mechanism for tight supply. For anyone budgeting a refresh, the working assumption flips to less capability per dollar in the out-years.
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One SKU, one compute die, 1.2 TB/s of LPDDR5X, and benchmark wins over a 96-core EPYC. The comparison with AMD's Venice is being set on Nvidia's terms rather than on core counts.
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