Meta will deploy standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs in production, with Vera to follow — company sees perf-per-watt improvements of up to 2X in some CPU workloads

Meta will deploy Nvidia's standalone Grace CPUs in production data centers, with Vera CPUs to follow, aiming for up to a 2x performance-per-watt improvement in certain workloads. The partnership with Nvidia signifies Meta's commitment to optimizing its AI training and inference efforts in hyperscale data centers, potentially investing up to $135 billion by 2026. The Grace CPU features 72 Arm Neoverse V2 cores, while Vera boasts 88 custom Arm cores and support for up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory. Additionally, Meta plans to use Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet switches to enhance performance-per-watt for scale-out applications in its data centers.