Nvidia '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 CPU s at its annual GTC conference that kicks off on Monday, with a CPU-only rack likely to appear on the showroom floor. "CPUs are becoming the bottleneck in terms of growing out this AI and