Data-center CPU
General-purpose processors designed for servers and data centers, typically paired with AI accelerators (GPUs) as the host processor.
This subcategory covers server- and data-center-class central processing units (CPUs). In AI and robotics contexts they act as the host processor managing the operating system, task orchestration and data feeding to GPU accelerators. They commonly feature high-bandwidth multi-channel memory subsystems and coherent interconnects to GPUs.
AMD EPYC 7742
64-core (128-thread) AMD EPYC 7742 server processor from the Rome family (Zen 2, 7 nm). 2.25/3.4 GHz clocks, 256 MB L3, 225 W TDP, DDR4-3200, 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes.
NVIDIA Vera CPU
NVIDIA's next-generation server CPU: 88 custom "Olympus" Arm cores (176 threads), LPDDR5X memory and a 1.8 TB/s NVLink-C2C link to Rubin GPUs. Successor to Grace, part of the Vera Rubin platform.