Nvidia Secures Anthropic, OpenAI as Customers for New Vera Data Center CPU

Nvidia Corp. announced that Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first major customers for its upcoming Vera central processing unit, marking the company's push into the standalone data center microprocessor market. CEO Jensen Huang revealed the commitments during the Computex conference in Taiwan on June 1, 2026, with full production scheduled for the third quarter of 2026. The Vera chip represents Nvidia's direct challenge to Intel's Xeon and AMD's Epyc processors. Huang claimed Vera is 1.8 times faster than Intel's x86 technology for essential AI-related workloads, issuing the company's first public performance comparison against the industry-standard chips. The move aims to demonstrate Nvidia's relevance as data center workloads increasingly shift from AI model training to general-purpose computing for running AI services. Separately, Nvidia introduced updated data center software that can improve power efficiency, enabling operators to use up to 40% more accelerator chips within the same energy budget. The company also announced new DGX Station workstations for Windows, with Dell Technologies and other partners beginning sales in the fourth quarter of 2026.