# China's Alibaba Among The List of Early Adopters For NVIDIA's Agentic-AI Focused Vera CPU Racks.

*semiconductor · news · 2026-05-12 · Wccftech*

## Key points

- Alibaba has secured early shipments of NVIDIA's Vera CPU racks despite U.S. AI chip bans.
- NVIDIA's Vera CPU uses a custom Arm architecture, Olympus, with 88 cores and 176 threads.
- Vera is the first data center CPU to use LPDDR5 memory and supports up to 1.5 TB memory.
- NVIDIA expects Vera CPU adoption to create a new multi-billion-dollar business segment for the company.
- Vera CPU provides twice the data processing, compression, and CI/CD performance compared to Grace.

**Companies:** NVIDIA, Alibaba, Oracle, Meta, CoreWeave
**Countries:** China, United States

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