New Delhi, July 31 -- SANTA CLARA - Nvidia shipped its first Vera-based server racks to hyperscalers this spring without much noise from the market, but the numbers that have since emerged from its customer base are the kind that tend to get AMD and Intel's attention fast.

The Grace successor has already run through Nvidia's own chip design workflows. An internal CPU verification process that previously consumed 30 days in simulation completed in roughly 17 hours on a Vera cluster, Nvidia said. The company is now using Vera to design Vera's successors, an accelerative loop that compounds its development advantage at a rate x86-based workstations cannot match.

Nvidia has set a $20 billion revenue target for Vera in the current fiscal yea...