CPU adoption is part of deeper partnership between the Social Network and Nvidia which will see millions of GPUs deployed over next few years

Move over Intel and AMD — Meta is among the first hyperscalers to deploy Nvidia's standalone CPUs, the two companies revealed on Tuesday. Meta has already deployed Nvidia's Grace processors in CPU-only systems at scale and is working with the GPU slinger to field its upcoming Vera CPUs beginning next year.

Apart from a few scientific institutions, Nvidia's nearly three-year-old Grace CPUs have predominantly shipped as part of so-called "Superchips" which featured integrated Hopper and Blackwell GPUs onboard.

These are nothing new for Meta. The Social Network has previously deployed Nvidia's Grace-Hopper Superchips as part of its Andromeda recommender system and now plans to field "millions" of Nvidia GB300 and Vera Rubin Superchips, the companies said today.

What has changed is Meta is now using Nvidia's CPU-only Grace systems to power both general purpose and agentic AI workloads that don't require a GPU.

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