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Morning Edition · Tuesday, July 28, 2026Published at 1:31 AM EDT · New York
Nvidia Puts Its Vera CPU to Work Designing the Next Generation of CPUs and GPUs
Working with Cadence and Synopsys, Nvidia is using its own Arm-based server chip to accelerate electronic design automation, a feedback loop where AI hardware speeds its own successors.
Nvidia said it is using its Vera CPU to speed up electronic design automation, the software workloads that verify and optimize modern chips, working with the two dominant tools vendors, Cadence and Synopsys. Vera is a central processing uni…
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