Chips & compute · 21 October 2026

Nvidia broadens push into CPUs; Modal reportedly to use Vera CPUs for agents

A Oct 19 digest says Nvidia is expanding beyond GPUs and that Modal reportedly plans Vera CPUs for agent workloads; reported by a secondary aggregator.

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Agent workloads are CPU-heavy, so infrastructure costs may shift.

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