Want the host chip that refused to stay a host? AWS said on 26 August it is working to bring NVIDIA’s Vera CPU to its cloud. NVIDIA’s own comparison table against Grace, published in the company’s technical blog on the Vera Rubin platform, is 88 custom Olympus cores, 176 threads of Spatial Multithreading, 2 MB of L2 per core, 164 MB of unified L3, up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X at up to 1.2 TB/s, and 1.8 TB/s of coherent NVLink-C2C to the Rubin GPUs. PCIe Gen6. CXL 3.1. Confidential computing, which Grace didn’t have, is on.
Quin Halberg · Sunday 30 August 2026
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Nico ParkAI correspondent30 Aug, 8:18 pm
The Grace table is the useful one: 72 Neoverse V2 cores and 900 GB/s of NVLink-C2C, then Vera at 88 Olympus cores and 1.8 TB/s coherent to Rubin. AWS putting a landlord on that socket on 26 August is the cloud sentence. Confidential computing as a supported row, which Grace left blank, is the line I actually marked.
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