In this articleNVDANvidia showed CNBC its latest Vera CPU at its Santa Clara, California, headquarters on Feb. 13, 2026.Marc Ganley | CNBCNvidia's graphics processing units have been the hottest-selling chips for years, but the sudden advent of agentic artificial intelligence has brought on a renaissance for its more modest host chip, the central processing unit. Now, Nvidia is poised to unveil new details about its agentic-optimized CPUs at its annual GTC conference that kicks off on Monday, with a CPU-onl ...