“Vera will sell extremely well, if not for its performance characteristics, then because if you want more than eight Rubins, it’s probably coming with a Vera CPU attached.”
88 custom Armv9.2 cores on a monolithic 3nm die, 1.5TB of LPDDR5X, 1.2TB/s per socket. Nvidia claims 1.8x per-core over AMD’s Epyc 9755, which shipped nearly two years earlier, and Venice lands with 16 memory channels to erase the bandwidth edge. None of that matters to the sales number. The CPU ships because it is bolted to the GPU you already agreed to buy.