NVIDIA Vera Rubin enters production for agentic AI factories
NVIDIA Vera Rubin enters production for agentic AI factories, with Spectrum-X photonics, Confidential Computing and DSX support.
NVIDIA has announced that its Vera Rubin platform is ramping into full production, with Taiwan’s server makers and global supply chain partners manufacturing Vera Rubin-based systems at scale.
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The platform is designed for agentic AI factories, where AI labs, cloud providers and hyperscalers need infrastructure that can support more complex workloads across larger systems. NVIDIA says Vera Rubin delivers 10x agent throughput at scale compared with the previous-generation NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform.
Rack-scale systems move into production
Vera Rubin is built as a POD-scale platform, with five purpose-built racks operating as one AI supercomputer for agentic workloads. The integrated system brings together NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, NVIDIA Vera CPU, NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX storage and NVIDIA Spectrum-6 SPX Ethernet racks.
The platform marks the third generation of NVIDIA MGX rack-scale systems. NVIDIA said hundreds of supply chain ecosystem partners are ramping Vera Rubin through its open source MGX design, including 150 partners in Taiwan across more than 350 factories and 30 countries.
Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro are among the top system builders in full-scale production of Vera Rubin. Other infrastructure, storage and supply chain partners include AIC, Aivres, ASRock Rack, ASUS, Cloudian, Compal, DDN, Everpure, Foxconn, GIGABYTE, Hitachi Vantara, Hyve Solutions, IBM, Inventec, MinIO, MiTAC Computing, MSI, NetApp, Nutanix, Pegatron, Quanta Cloud Technology, VAST Data, WEKA, Wistron and Wiwynn.
Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics supports larger AI clusters
Vera Rubin introduces NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics, a co-packaged optics-based switching technology now in production. NVIDIA describes it as the world’s first CPO-based switches with 200Gb/s SerDes.
The networking layer is designed to support scale-out and scale-across AI factory deployments. NVIDIA said Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics delivers 5x better power efficiency, 5x longer AI uptime and 1.3x faster time to deployment than networks using traditional transceivers.
The company said co-packaged optics networking simplifies design and frees more power for compute, making it part of the foundation for million-GPU AI factories. CoreWeave, Lambda and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are among the first ecosystem partners and adopters.
Vera Rubin also integrates NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs, which support software-defined networking at speeds of up to 800Gb/s and built-in multi-tenant isolation. NVIDIA said the BlueField-4 Advanced Secure Trusted Resource Architecture is designed to simplify network operations, improve tenant isolation and give customers more control across million-GPU AI clusters.
Security and deployment tooling extend the platform
NVIDIA is also tying Vera Rubin to its Confidential Computing and DOCA software stack, as AI factories process proprietary data, regulated content and mission-critical models in shared or cloud environments.
Vera Rubin was designed with full-stack NVIDIA Confidential Computing for a trusted execution environment at rack scale. The Vera Rubin NVL72 platform combines Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs, NVIDIA NVLink networking and security features into a unified system that encrypts data across high-speed interconnects and provides hardware-level attestation.
Cloud providers adopting NVIDIA Confidential Computing include CoreWeave, Firmus, GMI Cloud, IBM Cloud, IREN, Lambda, Microsoft Azure, Nebius, Nscale, SpaceXAI and Vultr.
The NVIDIA DOCA software platform adds a programmable security layer across Vera Rubin racks. NVIDIA said DOCA enables multi-tenant network isolation, zero-trust policy enforcement, runtime threat detection and end-to-end encryption at speeds of up to 800Gb/s, without using host CPU resources.
NVIDIA DSX provides the design and operational foundation for Vera Rubin AI factories, covering reference designs, simulation, infrastructure software, facilities and ecosystem technologies. Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro, together with ASUS, Foxconn, GIGABYTE, Pegatron, Quanta Cloud Technology, Wistron and Wiwynn, are adopting DSX to support Vera Rubin deployments.
Production shipments of Vera Rubin are set to begin this fall.
