New Delhi, July 30 -- SANTA CLARA - AMD's Epyc server processors have been the most credible challenge to Intel's decade-long grip on the data center. By the end of this year, AMD may have a bigger problem than Intel.

Nvidia shipped hundreds of thousands of Grace standalone servers and more than 2.5 million Grace CPU units by May 2026, and its newer Vera chip, the successor that Grace built toward, now posts benchmark results that outpace x86 processors from both AMD and Intel by 50 percent, according to Nvidia's performance assessments. The next server CPU race, analysts say, may already have a winner.

The stakes are measured in hundreds of billions. Nvidia, whose GPU business transformed the data center over the past four years, now p...